Re: Rebuilding .src.rpm's for performance

[Adam Bowns <adam-bowns ntlworld com>]

I don't have a performance issue, or at least i don't think i've got one
:-) How do I go about testing this ?

Its a desktop machine (Athlon-XP 2200, 1GB pc2700, Asus A7v333(VIA
KT333) U160 SCSI HDD) thats used for normal everyday tasks with a bit of
java and C development thrown in. The main applications i run are X,
mozilla, evolution, jbuilder, openoffice and a few misc others. All
these load up and run at a reasonable pace. But i'm one of those people
for whom fast is never fast enough :-)

What really got me started on thinking about this was reading about
gentoo everywhere, i decided against gentoo though, so i though that
this would give similar performance gains (After all, every gentoo user
you see will tell you how fast their system is :-)


Regards,
Adam


On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 01:43, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 06:06:05PM +0000, Adam Bowns wrote:
> > I am considering rebuilding all the rpm's in use on my system so they
> > are optimised for my processor, but I have a few questions I would
> > really like to know the answer to before i start :-)
> > 
> > 1.Will it increase performance significantly ?
> 
> Probably not.  Before you go through such a massive undertaking (and
> take into account that you'll have to repeat this every time a package
> is updated), why don't you determine if you have a performance issue?
> If you're I/O bound, rebuilding won't help you a bit.  Most systems
> these days are I/O bound - rarely is an Athlon going to be saturated.
> What applications do you run that are consuming all your cpu?  Is this a
> desktop or a server?
> 
>         .../Ed
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