You should see the speed improvement only if your app uses POSIX threads. -----Original Message----- From: Redeeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 4:45 PM To: Gentoo Maillinglist Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] install: bootstrapping w/NPTL support?
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 23:15, Tom Wesley wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 21:46, Tom Wesley wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 19:13, Thomas Achtemichuk wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 13:15, Chris Graves wrote: > > > > Is it possible to bootstrap with NPTL support? Is there a particular > > > > stage1 tarball I need? > > > > > > I believe you'll need to do the bootstrapping under a 2.6 kernel as > > > glibc won't build with nptl without one. I had some difficulties using > > > the experimental 2.6 LiveCD so I just used a regular LiveCD and rebuilt > > > glibc and did an "emerge -eD world" after the install. Everything is > > > working fine. > > > > As a curiosity, what are the advantages of NPTL? > > OK, to reply to myself, I have Googled a little. It's seems that NPTL > is a more efficient form a thread management. Using a dual processor > machine (Athlon MP 2400) would I be likely to see a noticeable speed > increase if I enabled the nptl use flag and recompiled everything? yes thats what i understood too, it should have some more stuff too, and it only works on 2.6 (redhat ported to 2.4?) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
