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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


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