[gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-14 Thread Duncan
"Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:15:42 -0700: > I'm just curious whether anyone besides me is noticing their machine > feeling somewhat sluggish since doing the gcc-4.1 upgrade? Mine seems ot > be using a lot of memory. Alt-tabbin

[gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/14/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm just curious whether anyone besides me is noticing their machine feeling somewhat sluggish since doing the gcc-4.1 upgrade? I noticed this morning that MythTV's frontend program is often using 90% CPU when viewed in top. It never

[gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-15 Thread Duncan
"Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:43:19 -0700: >Now, you are very adept at this. You're explanations make sense to > the level I've considered them. (Not very far right now...) Main > questions: Adept, perhaps, but don't take

[gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-15 Thread Duncan
"Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:06:47 -0700: > On 9/14/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >>I'm just curious whether anyone besides me is noticing their >> machine feeling somewhat sluggish since doing the gcc-

[gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Duncan
Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:39:11 +: > Which model of Opteron are your CPUs? I have a feeling they differ from my > 246s, and I've been wondering how I ought to tune your helpfully explained > flags to suit my box. I'm

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-14 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: Hmm - no -ftree-vectorize? Care to comment on that? I hear that it can be buggy with a few packages, but I'm guessing it is worth having in there in general. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Usi

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/14/06, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:15:42 -0700: > I'm just curious whether anyone besides me is noticing their machine > feeling somewhat sluggish since doing the gcc-4.1 upgrade? Mine

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-15 Thread Greg Bur
On 9/14/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/14/06, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted> [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted> below, on  Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:15:42 -0700:2) What about building the kernel? How do the standardmake && make modules_install co

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 14 September 2006 20:08, Duncan wrote: > Here's my CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS: ...etc. Which model of Opteron are your CPUs? I have a feeling they differ from my 246s, and I've been wondering how I ought to tune your helpfully explained flags to suit my box. -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-amd64@g

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 23 September 2006 19:52, Duncan wrote: > However, the only difference (CFLAGS wise) that I'm aware of for the AMD > dual-cores is that they now incorporate SSE3, while my old 242s and I > presume your 246s don't. Nope. SSE and SSE2, but not SSE3. According to /proc/cpuinfo, that is.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Jason Booth
On Saturday 23 September 2006 16:21, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Nope. SSE and SSE2, but not SSE3. According to /proc/cpuinfo, that is. The flag in cpuinfo is pni for "Prescott New Instructions". Cheers, Jason -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?

2006-09-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 23 September 2006 17:21, Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc 4.1 upgrade - bad desktop interactivity anyone?': > On Saturday 23 September 2006 19:52, Duncan wrote: > > However, the only difference (CFLAGS wise) that I&#