On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 22:44, Redeeman wrote: > 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?)
Yeah I'm using 2.6 already (quite and impressive speed boost to be had there!) I was planning on spending the weekend with dep-clean, tidying my machine - given this I might just take a backup and re-install from scratch, getting nptl in right at the start. I will let you know the findings in a few hours when it's all completed. -- Tom Wesley
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