Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:17:12 +0700, Sthu wrote in message 4ce23002.d07b0e0a.6484.2...@mx.google.com: Thank You for Your time and answer, Arnt: beware that some processes grabs _every_ damned bit of memory it can get Can You bring here an example f such behavior? ..try put motion on

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:58:08 +0700, Sthu wrote in message 4ce0cbf7.d07b0e0a.2eb0.2...@mx.google.com: Thank You for Your time and answer, Arnt: ..what it needs to do, it can either do in some slick hardware, or, the hard sweaty way by some software hack. Motion reads a webcam to see

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-15 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arnt: beware that some processes grabs _every_ damned bit of memory it can get Can You bring here an example f such behavior? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:26:22 -0500, Johan wrote in message 87r5eoajq9@emmy.axel.nom: Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net writes: ..it depends, 'top |head ' tells us another wee story: ;o) Correct me if I am mistaken. Looking at your numbers, it seems that most of the time is spent in

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-14 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arnt: ..what it needs to do, it can either do in some slick hardware, or, the hard sweaty way by some software hack. Motion reads a webcam to see if anything moves, then takes pictures and makes movies from them. And, heavy swapping cause disk wear.

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-13 Thread Johan Kullstam
Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net writes: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:57:09 +0700, Sthu wrote in message 4cdd0f80.ce7c0e0a.2046.a...@mx.google.com: Thank You for Your time and answer, Arnt: What are the hardware specs of the machine you have? Exactly which CPU, how much RAM, what hard disk

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-12 Thread Sthu Deus
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

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-12 Thread Sthu Deus
- having found out that there is no linux-image-*i586.deb for the CPU. It is really funny to continue for me still. - I feel myself owe to answer in the topic - for You still pay attention to it - the thing I greatly appreciate. But myself - I think we are just trying to find something that we/i did

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-12 Thread Dirk Neumann
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:49:11 +0700 Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-12 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Dirk: Not all i586-CPUs have MMX, so I'm not sure if the kernel would use MMX in i586-mode (despite for runtime-mmx-detection, but this option you can have without march=i586). And you are always free to a) compile a kernel with march=i586 b) use mmx in

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-12 Thread Dirk Neumann
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:38:03 +0700 Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Dirk: Not all i586-CPUs have MMX, so I'm not sure if the kernel would use MMX in i586-mode (despite for runtime-mmx-detection, but this option you can have without march=i586). And

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:41:26 -0500, Johan wrote in message 87aalgiw61@emmy.axel.nom: Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com writes: Good day. Just wanted to ask, Why there is no linux-image package for i586, especially w/ MMX support - but only for i486, then for i686 and up? I don't

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:57:09 +0700, Sthu wrote in message 4cdd0f80.ce7c0e0a.2046.a...@mx.google.com: Thank You for Your time and answer, Arnt: What are the hardware specs of the machine you have? Exactly which CPU, how much RAM, what hard disk (size and rpm), etc. Please provide

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-10 Thread Johan Kullstam
Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com writes: Good day. Just wanted to ask, Why there is no linux-image package for i586, especially w/ MMX support - but only for i486, then for i686 and up? I don't think all that many people have i586 boxen. They were current in the timeframe 1995 through 1997

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Sthu Deus put forth on 11/4/2010 9:08 AM: Just wanted to ask, Why there is no linux-image package for i586, especially w/ MMX support - but only for i486, then for i686 and up? What are the hardware specs of the machine you have? Exactly which CPU, how much RAM, what hard disk (size and rpm

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:18:24 -0600, Stan wrote in message 4cdb5270.3020...@hardwarefreak.com: Sthu Deus put forth on 11/4/2010 9:08 AM: Just wanted to ask, Why there is no linux-image package for i586, especially w/ MMX support - but only for i486, then for i686 and up? What

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-05 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:52:44 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: No, I cannot see any i586 kernel (i686 is the right one for pentium). AFAIK the kernel will not work on pentium machine - as it will announce at boot time - no appropriate CPU. How is that?

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 07:14:18 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message pan.2010.11.05.07.14...@gmail.com: On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:52:44 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: No, I cannot see any i586 kernel (i686 is the right one for pentium). AFAIK

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Camaleón: How is that? Are you saying that you cannot boot a Pentium III using i686 kernel? It is designed explicitly for that architecture :-? No. I say that it is impossible to load the kernel packaged for i686 on Pentium CPU - not Pentium III CPU. You are right, - it is packaged for the

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 01:10:14 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Camaleón: How is that? Are you saying that you cannot boot a Pentium III using i686 kernel? It is designed explicitly for that architecture :-? No. I say that it is impossible to load the kernel packaged for i686 on Pentium CPU - not

linux-image for i586

2010-11-04 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. Just wanted to ask, Why there is no linux-image package for i586, especially w/ MMX support - but only for i486, then for i686 and up? Thank You for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-04 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:08:50 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Just wanted to ask, Why there is no linux-image package for i586, especially w/ MMX support - but only for i486, then for i686 and up? Will there be any gain? :-? Anyway, I think you can always re-compile/re-build your own kernel (i686

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:08:50 +0700 Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Sthu, Just wanted to ask, Why there is no linux-image package for i586, especially w/ MMX support - but only for i486, then for i686 and up? Probably because, like the AMD (32 bit) builds, there was insufficient

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-04 Thread steef
Sthu Deus schreef: Good day. Just wanted to ask, Why there is no linux-image package for i586, especially w/ MMX support - but only for i486, then for i686 and up? Thank You for Your time. please consider building your own kernel with the extensions you want. kind regards, steef

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-04 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: Will there be any gain? :-? I believe - as it has other technologies than i486 CPUs. Anyway, I think you can always re-compile/re-build your own kernel (i686) and enable MMX extensions... It reaches recompiling every time the package is

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-04 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Brad: Probably because, like the AMD (32 bit) builds, there was insufficient benefit to warrant all the extra work (to say nothing of storage space) to do it. Then. may You know why they have chosen i486 instead of i386? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:29:24 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: Will there be any gain? :-? I believe - as it has other technologies than i486 CPUs. I guess i586 shares most of the i686 specs and that's the reason for the i686 kernel: all needed for a

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Brad: Probably because, like the AMD (32 bit) builds, there was insufficient benefit to warrant all the extra work (to say nothing of storage space) to do it. Then. may You know why they

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 4cd2eddc.52790e0a.3014.0...@mx.google.com, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Brad: Probably because, like the AMD (32 bit) builds, there was insufficient benefit to warrant all the extra work (to say nothing of storage space) to do it. Then. may You know why they have chosen

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-04 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: No, I cannot see any i586 kernel (i686 is the right one for pentium). AFAIK the kernel will not work on pentium machine - as it will announce at boot time - no appropriate CPU. And we need to thank Debian DD because at least they provide i486

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: Will there be any gain? :-? I believe - as it has other technologies than i486 CPUs. I think there's a lack of evidence that it will make a significant difference. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to