Re: moving from 3.16-3-486 to 686
The answers to your questions depend on what hardware you're using, what kind of processor, how many RAM. Concerning the CPU, the output of cat /proc/cpuinfo would give some insight. -- Regards, jvp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/m59b3o$qha$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: moving from 3.16-3-486 to 686
Hi. On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:35:46PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Pascal Hambourg writes: > > > Harry Putnam a écrit : > >> > >> My question is whether continuing to use the 486 versions of kernels > >> has any down sides? > > > > The -486 kernel lacks support for multiprocessing/hyperthreading and PAE > > (which is required for NX/XD bit). > > I see in my latest `full-upgrade' that I've now gone to a 586 kernel: > > uname -r 3.16.0-4-586 > > I did nothing purposely to make that happen but there it is. > > Does your comment about "multiprocessing/hyp ..." hold true for 586 as > well? That kernel's config file has: # CONFIG_SMP is not set That means no multiprocessor support (i.e. a single CPU core will be used all the time regardless of their actual number). > Oh, and what is `NX/XD'? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_bit It's considered a good thing to have one in CPU generally, as implementing said bit in-kernel will hurt performance. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141124180435.GA27880@x101h
Re: moving from 3.16-3-486 to 686
Pascal Hambourg writes: > Harry Putnam a écrit : >> >> My question is whether continuing to use the 486 versions of kernels >> has any down sides? > > The -486 kernel lacks support for multiprocessing/hyperthreading and PAE > (which is required for NX/XD bit). I see in my latest `full-upgrade' that I've now gone to a 586 kernel: uname -r 3.16.0-4-586 I did nothing purposely to make that happen but there it is. Does your comment about "multiprocessing/hyp ..." hold true for 586 as well? Oh, and what is `NX/XD'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87d28cec25@reader.local.lan
Re: moving from 3.16-3-486 to 686
Harry Putnam a écrit : > > My question is whether continuing to use the 486 versions of kernels > has any down sides? The -486 kernel lacks support for multiprocessing/hyperthreading and PAE (which is required for NX/XD bit). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54711ef...@plouf.fr.eu.org
Re: moving from 3.16-3-486 to 686
On 22/11/14 06:18 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Months ago, installing jessie as guest on win7-64, I somehow ended up with a 486 kernel. In other previous installs it was a 686 kernel... not sure what I did. But no doubt I selected it without realizing or the like. My question is whether continuing to use the 486 versions of kernels has any down sides? I haven't run into anything I noticed to be a problem related to kernel version... but not sure I would be able to tell anyway. My usage is as single user on home lan, light programming, email, browse net, maybe small lan mail server. So with that kind of light usage in mind... is there likely to be anything that 686 offers that I'm likely to need? Probably makes no difference. You might see a difference if you were running heavy image processing or math. What makes a bigger difference is the running of 32bit versus 64bit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54711cf7.60...@torfree.net
moving from 3.16-3-486 to 686
Months ago, installing jessie as guest on win7-64, I somehow ended up with a 486 kernel. In other previous installs it was a 686 kernel... not sure what I did. But no doubt I selected it without realizing or the like. My question is whether continuing to use the 486 versions of kernels has any down sides? I haven't run into anything I noticed to be a problem related to kernel version... but not sure I would be able to tell anyway. My usage is as single user on home lan, light programming, email, browse net, maybe small lan mail server. So with that kind of light usage in mind... is there likely to be anything that 686 offers that I'm likely to need? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87y4r2rfhw@reader.local.lan
