Re: [gentoo-user] A tale of computing thud and blunder

2011-12-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Dale wrote: > Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> >> Kind of like what I always do when I switch from -march=nocona to >> -march=native. (Usually I use -march=nocona to ensure seamless VM migration >> on my XenServer-equipped boxen, but for some VMs, i.e., those requiring m

Re: [gentoo-user] A tale of computing thud and blunder

2011-12-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 19, 2011 1:18 PM, "Dale" wrote: > > Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> >> Kind of like what I always do when I switch from -march=nocona to -march=native. (Usually I use -march=nocona to ensure seamless VM migration on my XenServer-equipped boxen, but for some VMs, i.e., those requiring me to wring

Re: [gentoo-user] A tale of computing thud and blunder

2011-12-18 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: Kind of like what I always do when I switch from -march=nocona to -march=native. (Usually I use -march=nocona to ensure seamless VM migration on my XenServer-equipped boxen, but for some VMs, i.e., those requiring me to wring out every last drop of performance, I go nativ

Re: [gentoo-user] A tale of computing thud and blunder

2011-12-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 19, 2011 7:20 AM, "Dale" wrote: > > Walter Dnes wrote: >> >> It's probably the sum total of the effect of all the flags. I've renamed the thread, to be more accurate. Here's how things went... * right after the install (presumably with generic i686 code) the PC could not handle streaming 10

Re: [gentoo-user] A tale of computing thud and blunder

2011-12-18 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: It's probably the sum total of the effect of all the flags. I've renamed the thread, to be more accurate. Here's how things went... * right after the install (presumably with generic i686 code) the PC could not handle streaming 1080i video from my HDHomerun TV tuner * I misi

[gentoo-user] A tale of computing thud and blunder

2011-12-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 12:45:27PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote > > On 12/18/2011 12:34 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > >This was only recently installed. Is it possible that the generic x86 > > code from the initial install was the problem? And that emerging > > system+world got me full optim