make.conf CPUTYPE Xeon Conroe?

2008-03-05 Thread Nerius Landys
I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 on a server with an Intel Xeon Dual-Core 3060 Conroe (2.4GHz) CPU. I'm wondering what I should set CPUTYPE to in my /etc/make.conf. The file /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf has this information: # (Intel CPUs)core2 core nocona pentium4m pentium4 prescott #

Re: make.conf CPUTYPE Xeon Conroe?

2008-03-05 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wednesday 05 March 2008 11:55:48 am Nerius Landys wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 on a server with an Intel Xeon Dual-Core 3060 Conroe (2.4GHz) CPU. I'm wondering what I should set CPUTYPE to in my /etc/make.conf. The file /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf has this information: #

Re: make.conf CPUTYPE Xeon Conroe?

2008-03-05 Thread Robert Huff
Josh Paetzel writes: As a general rule, setting a CPUTYPE is something you should try to avoid...there's all sorts of breakage it can cause for very little gain. Do you have examples? I ask because I've had CPUTYPE? = p4 on this machine for five years - dozens of buildworlds and

Re: make.conf CPUTYPE Xeon Conroe?

2008-03-05 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:55:48AM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 on a server with an Intel Xeon Dual-Core 3060 Conroe (2.4GHz) CPU. I'm wondering what I should set CPUTYPE to in my /etc/make.conf. The file /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf has this information: #

Re: make.conf CPUTYPE Xeon Conroe?

2008-03-05 Thread David Alanis
Alike other users how can you compare the benefits pros/cons of setting the CPU type? Documentation reads otherwise and it only mentions possible cons in one section? # CFLAGS controls the compiler settings used when compiling C code. # Note that optimization settings other than -O and -O2