Re: Debian Slow?
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:47:01PM +1300, edward@murrell.co.nz wrote:
> I'm starting to wonder how much difference gentoo's optimization
> actually makes.
Gentoo is much faster than debian. Generally every new distro is faster,
cause other distros has i586 or higher optimalization (while debian has
i386). It gives a lot in X applications (but also in others) - better
memory use, take advantages of many processor specific instructions etc.
To speed up my debian I have many packages rebuilded with optimalization
flags. But sometimes it's hard to pass flags to compilator. And
apt-build is definitely not good for that task. It will be very usefull
to standarize it for debian (e.g. adds few lines in every package in
debian/rules file with commands to overwrite defaults flags for
compilers).
But if your debian box is much much slower than gentoo, maybe it's
problem with your configuration. I recommend you to check DMA settings
for your hard drives- it could be significant for performance.
Karol
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