Dual Core

2008-04-30 Thread Nicolas FRANCOIS
Hi. I just bought a DualCore, and a friend of mine told me I should build a 64bits system. Is there any point in this ? I noticed while installing a base Debian (to start building LFS ;-) that the chosen kernel was the AMD64 flavor. Is this normal ? And what options should I enable in the kernel

Re: Dual Core?

2008-01-29 Thread thorsten
lists wrote: Mark Olbert wrote: This is probably a silly question, but I haven't been able to find an answer in the mailing list archives. If built on a dual-core system, does LFS take advantage of the dual cores? If you enable the support in the kernel yes it does. Jaqui

Re: Dual Core?

2008-01-29 Thread jerry
And if enabled, try this: when building any package which takes a while to build, time how long it takes to compile with a) make and b) make -j 10 the second one should give you a speedy experience... I have found that compiling big programs like linux kernel or glibc works

Re: Dual Core?

2008-01-29 Thread Baho Utot
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 1:08:53 am Mark Olbert wrote: This is probably a silly question, but I haven't been able to find an answer in the mailing list archives. If built on a dual-core system, does LFS take advantage of the dual cores? - Mark if you compile a smp kernel it will. -- http

Dual Core?

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Olbert
This is probably a silly question, but I haven't been able to find an answer in the mailing list archives. If built on a dual-core system, does LFS take advantage of the dual cores? - Mark -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs

Re: Dual Core?

2008-01-28 Thread lists
Mark Olbert wrote: This is probably a silly question, but I haven't been able to find an answer in the mailing list archives. If built on a dual-core system, does LFS take advantage of the dual cores? If you enable the support in the kernel yes it does. Jaqui -- http