Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release #

2004-07-29 Thread Puna Tannehill
Scott wrote: Hi, I completed my first update (upgrade?) of a 5.2.1 fresh FreeBSD install. I followed a couple how-to's, the handbook, and "Absolute BSD" as my guides. My machine is a 1.8Ghz AMD. Here is my supfile: *default host=cvsup15.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *def

Re: Updating 5.2.1 Release #

2004-07-29 Thread Puna Tannehill
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:37:35AM -0500, Puna Tannehill wrote: Scott wrote: uname -a shows: FreeBSD 5.2.1-Release #0: I was expecting the release (version, revision# ?) number to be greater than #0. I think I've seen where the latest revision is #9 or so? Do I ne

3dnow, mmx, k6-2 optimizing?

2004-09-13 Thread Puna Tannehill
I've been looking for possible flags, optimizations, really anything that would help me setup my laptop to use mmx and 3dnow. I've updated /etc/make.conf to -march to the drum of a k6-2, but I'm not even sure if mmx and 3dnow are being taken into consideration for compiling and such, especiall

Re: 3dnow, mmx, k6-2 optimizing?

2004-09-13 Thread Puna Tannehill
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:23:18PM -0500, Puna Tannehill wrote: I've been looking for possible flags, optimizations, really anything that would help me setup my laptop to use mmx and 3dnow. I've updated /etc/make.conf to -march to the drum of a k6-2, but I'

Re: 3dnow, mmx, k6-2 optimizing?

2004-09-13 Thread Puna Tannehill
Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:23:18 -0500, Puna Tannehill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been looking for possible flags, optimizations, really anything that would help me setup my laptop to use mmx and 3dnow. I've updated /etc/make.conf to -march to the dru

kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded, error

2004-09-14 Thread Puna Tannehill
On a freshly rebuild v5.3-BETA4... A failed compile of sysutils/fastest_cvsup led me to run 'make clean' before trying again. It took over 5 minutes to run make clean, and at the very end I got the following: # make clean kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see tuning(7) Pipe call failed:

Re: 3dnow, mmx, k6-2 optimizing?

2004-09-17 Thread Puna Tannehill
Interesting. I just tried the settings you suggested, and it seems that -mcpu is depreciated for -mtune. ALWAYS check the documentation first. :-) Here's the details: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.2/gcc/i386-and-x86_002d64-Options.html#i386-and-x86_002d64-Options Puna Puna Tann