"Does that disk recognize that is running on an SMP system ?"
I did not see anything on the boot screen as it loaded that made me think it saw 2 cpus. but perhaps the old Mandrake 8.2 did not offer a SMP kernel.
"Is no interaction better than slight interaction?"
I like a bit of interaction, basic stuff. I'm now going to do XYZ now is this OK? that kind of stuff, ofdnix dosen't ask you anything unless you run cfgfolding, then it asks for username, then team number.
But with ofdnix as soon as you boot it you will be running the default configuation for team #32 as another user, the creator of the orig distro. Just because that's how he set it up in the beginning, I suppose he just made it for himself and a few team members. It would be ideal if the congfig was blank till you entered your info, this would make it more generic and of use to more ppl perhaps.
"Are those all of the flags that should be set?"
No there is 1 other that I'm not supposed to mention.
The ability to select the particular switches that you want/need on a given machine is something that would be very important. force SSE does nothing for a Intel system.
"With the points increase in Tinker, isn't the -advmethods just a personal pref now?"
advmethods = Public Beta testing, If it crashes don't complain because they're late stage Beta.
"From looking at the documentation, it seems to me that having both -forceSSE and -forceasm is kind of redundant."
-forceasm = After a system crash, force the default optimization: 3DNow+ for chips that have it. SSE or AltiVec if either is available but not 3DNow (e.g.-Intel), for advanced users who know what they're doing ....
-forceSSE = Force SSE on, if both 3DNow+ and SSE are available. this just makes sure the best avalible optimization is used, I believe that AMD chips were sometimes just using 3DNow even if SSE was avalible. SSE makes a very large diff in the production of a AMD rig..big improvment over 3DNow
"Also, -local is supposedly worthless on Linux, if I remember the docs correctly"
you are correct, the local switch prob just got tossed in ther cause it is listed somewhere as a possible switch that you would use...if you run windows and have a SMP rig.
I did not see anything on the boot screen as it loaded that made me think it saw 2 cpus. but perhaps the old Mandrake 8.2 did not offer a SMP kernel.
"Is no interaction better than slight interaction?"
I like a bit of interaction, basic stuff. I'm now going to do XYZ now is this OK? that kind of stuff, ofdnix dosen't ask you anything unless you run cfgfolding, then it asks for username, then team number.
But with ofdnix as soon as you boot it you will be running the default configuation for team #32 as another user, the creator of the orig distro. Just because that's how he set it up in the beginning, I suppose he just made it for himself and a few team members. It would be ideal if the congfig was blank till you entered your info, this would make it more generic and of use to more ppl perhaps.
"Are those all of the flags that should be set?"
No there is 1 other that I'm not supposed to mention.
The ability to select the particular switches that you want/need on a given machine is something that would be very important. force SSE does nothing for a Intel system.
"With the points increase in Tinker, isn't the -advmethods just a personal pref now?"
advmethods = Public Beta testing, If it crashes don't complain because they're late stage Beta.
"From looking at the documentation, it seems to me that having both -forceSSE and -forceasm is kind of redundant."
-forceasm = After a system crash, force the default optimization: 3DNow+ for chips that have it. SSE or AltiVec if either is available but not 3DNow (e.g.-Intel), for advanced users who know what they're doing ....
-forceSSE = Force SSE on, if both 3DNow+ and SSE are available. this just makes sure the best avalible optimization is used, I believe that AMD chips were sometimes just using 3DNow even if SSE was avalible. SSE makes a very large diff in the production of a AMD rig..big improvment over 3DNow
"Also, -local is supposedly worthless on Linux, if I remember the docs correctly"
you are correct, the local switch prob just got tossed in ther cause it is listed somewhere as a possible switch that you would use...if you run windows and have a SMP rig.
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