begin quote On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:42:42 -0700 Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just finished a stage 1 on a server with 2 P3 CPUs using disk1 of > the P3 live CD set. > > When I got to editing make.conf, the file from the live CD had CHOST > set to i486. That seemed odd, but I left it alone. In CFLAGS I set > march to pentium3. Are these settings OK? Should I go back and set > CHOST to i686? I don't smell any smoke... If you just finished , "DONT TOUCH CHOST" . ok? gcc encodes librarypaths with CHOST, so changing it in a live system will cause... erm. "headaches" . so to say. (Complete borkage unless you're good, actually) CFLAGS is ok to change , and -march=pentium3 sounds good. <SNIP> > > > > The new kernel is an smp (there are multiprocessor things in the > processes, and /proc/cpuinfo has 2 listed), but while emerging the > server software, I noticed that top was showing 50% CPU idle time. Is > there a way to get the second CPU in on the party? MAKEOPTS is set to > 3 in make.conf, and I've been emerging things one at a time. try MAKEOPTS="-j4" or a bit more then, please note that some packages aren't multi-make friendly and will therefore override MAKEOPTS. No, this is not because we are evile hackers who impend our will on you, its because the compilation will fail in N out of M cases with obscure errors. ;) //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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