Thank You for Your time and answer, Johan: > The i486 kernel will run on an i586 box. Even if you compile the > kernel for i586 how much speed are you really going to get? A few > percent? And how much time do you spend in kernel as opposed to > userland? Maybe 3-20 percent depending on what you are doing right? > So, in rough numbers, that's a 10% off on 10% of what you do for a > net of roughly 1%.
Actually I am not so much concerned as to speeding up the machine as for using its all abilities - MMX tech. for example. I do not in any case - know if it helps - just my opinion as there are different packages for different CPUs. In past times I saw for i586 CPU packages in another distro. > If you actually care about speed, you might upgrade to a new cpu. > People should be giving away pentium-iii and early athlon boxes for > free. (Depending on where you live &c.) As soon as I find such a person - so I would do. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cdd0d9f.52790e0a.1449.ffffa...@mx.google.com
