On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:38:46PM -0500, Ryan Rempel wrote: > I've got several machines that I want to maintain identical > installations on. Some of them have athlon-xp CPUs and some have > pentium4's. > > What would be a good CPUTYPE setting to use in make.conf? Would an > athlon-xp run well (or at all) if I used pentium4? Would a pentium4 > run well (or at all) if I used athlon-xp?
No and no. > Or should I use a "lowest > common denominator" (and if so, what -- something like i686 perhaps?). I think i686 should be OK. > I guess the other question is whether I should worry about this at all > -- I've got no CPUTYPE setting in make.conf at the moment at all -- > would a more "tuned" setting actually make that much difference? Probably not much of one. More important are your kernel settings (e.g. not compiling your kernel with i386/i486 support). Kris
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