On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 03:32:15PM +0100, Oliver Korpilla wrote: > Yeah, but slower??
Well at least very similar speeds seem not too unreasonable. I am not sure if the 64bit pointers would hurt the performance of gcc in any way. It does have to move more bytes around than a 32bit machine. it is certainly faster at many tasks. > I already do -j 3. I wonder if 3 is overkill. > >Well what does hdparm -t /dev/sda say your disk speed is able to do? > >What kind of HD and what size? > > 250GB Seagate SATA. > > # hdparm -v /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead = 256 (on) > geometry = 30401/255/63, sectors = 250059350016, start = 0 That doesn't say much interesting for sata drives. -t would have been more interesting. As far as I know sata drivers always run with dma on, but I may be wrong. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
