On 17 September 2011 09:29, Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 3:34 PM, David Kiefer <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 15.09.2011 21:35, Dan Kegel wrote: >>> My new AMD a8-3850 takes 77 seconds to run wine's configure script. >> >> It might be related to frequency scaling. >> I have a Phenom II X4 945 and configure runs in 29 seconds, but only >> when using the performance governor. When using the default ondemand >> governor it runs in 59 seconds, similar to what Austin got. > > Good call! After doing > for cpu in `seq 0 3` do; sudo cpufreq-set -g performance -c $cpu; done > the a8-3850 runs configure in 37 seconds!
Handy tip, Dan. Thanks :)
