Re: FreeBSD 5.4 on a Pentium 4

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:55:24AM -0500, John Nielsen wrote:
On Thursday 08 February 2007 11:16, Philip Radford wrote:
Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone could help me out with an issue on FreeBSD which
has been puzzling me for a while and only now do I have the time to go and
figure it out.

We currently have version 5.4 installed but understand that the
architecture it is set up for is a generic i386.

How do I go about optimising my base system and/or installed ports to
recognise my CPU as an i686 and therefore make use of this type of CPU.

I have enclosed the first part of my dmesg output to identify the CPU.

CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (3000.12-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1

Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MC
A,C MOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs

Add "CPUTYPE?=pentium4" to /etc/make.conf.

Remove the "cpu I486_CPU" and "cpu I586_CPU" lines from your kernel config (if
present), leaving only "cpu I686_CPU". Rebuild your kernel, world, and ports.

Correct as far as it goes, but the OP will see a much bigger
performance gain by updating to 6.x than the negligible gains from
recompiling with different compiler optimizations.

Kris
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