On Tuesday 18 March 2003 20:29, David Krider uttered: > There's no doubt in my mind that there are indeed fundamental > improvements to be gained through compiling 1) for your architecture, > and 2) with all the optimizations you can get. Just compiling with > `-march=Athlon' isn't going to cut it. There are several more flags that > a wound-out Gentoo user would use. If you can pass those to RPM, I don't > know how, but I'd love to find out.
The problem, is that each level of optimization you go up, your system becomes exponentially more unstable. Ask any gentoo user, and they'll brag about how fast their system boots up. Boots up? I worry about that once a month or so, when kernel errata is released. Gentoo users are usually a daily occurrence when dealing with top level optimizations. The benefit does come when somebody like Red Hat does all the compiling for you. They compile it, they test it, they ensure that it's going to work to the best of their abilities on your hardware. Go ahead, start recompiling arbitrary pieces of your OS, with the most opt flags you can find. Then really find out how stable your system is. Would you put it into production? Would you like to be the admin responsible for the uptime and upkeep of that system? I sure wouldn't. I don't know many other people who do this for a living that would touch it with a 10' pole. Of course, this is just my jilted opinion, having come from a background of being responsible for unstable Windows boxes, I rather enjoy the stability I find in Red Hat systems. Even if I take a measly 5~10% performance hit, I'd rather not listen to the "My PC locked up again...." from each user. One user, maybe not that bad. Multiply that across a 300 person company. Sound fun? </rant> -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
