Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on the i7

2010-04-11 Thread Mick
On Sunday 11 April 2010 14:12:08 Kerin Millar wrote: > On 11/04/2010 12:27, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 11 April 2010 11:43:26 zeera...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 03:20:50AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: > >>> On 10/04/2010 23:06, luis jure wrote: > hello list, > > afte

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on the i7

2010-04-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Kerin Millar wrote: > > $ paste <(cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index?/type) <(cat > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index?/size) | sed -re 's/\W+/: /' > > On my system that results in the following: > > Data: 32K > Instruction: 32K > Unified: 6144K >

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on the i7

2010-04-11 Thread Kerin Millar
On 11/04/2010 12:27, Mick wrote: On Sunday 11 April 2010 11:43:26 zeera...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 03:20:50AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: On 10/04/2010 23:06, luis jure wrote: hello list, after many years without a hardware upgrade, i'll be receiving my new computer next week:

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on the i7

2010-04-11 Thread Kerin Millar
On 11/04/2010 11:43, zeera...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] In short, use "native" and let the compiler take care of the details. Cheers, --Kerin There's a thread in Installing Gentoo where a dev (can't remember which), that says native isn't the best option, but the best option indeed is to s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on the i7

2010-04-11 Thread Mick
On Sunday 11 April 2010 11:43:26 zeera...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 03:20:50AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: > > On 10/04/2010 23:06, luis jure wrote: > > > hello list, > > > > > > after many years without a hardware upgrade, i'll be receiving my new > > > computer next week: intel i7

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on the i7

2010-04-11 Thread zeerak . w
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 03:20:50AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: > On 10/04/2010 23:06, luis jure wrote: > > > > hello list, > > > > after many years without a hardware upgrade, i'll be receiving my new > > computer next week: intel i7 920 cpu, 6 GB ram, asus p6t mobo. > > > > i'm pretty excited, i im

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on the i7

2010-04-10 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/04/2010 23:06, luis jure wrote: hello list, after many years without a hardware upgrade, i'll be receiving my new computer next week: intel i7 920 cpu, 6 GB ram, asus p6t mobo. i'm pretty excited, i imagine that at first i'll be shocked at the difference with the ancient machine i'm usin