Re: amd processors seem slow at running configure?

[Ben Klein]

On 17 September 2011 09:29, Dan Kegel <dank(a)kegel.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 3:34 PM, David Kiefer <hevanen(a)googlemail.com> 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 :)