kernel 2.6 very sluggish
Jason Montleon
monty19 at hotmail.com
Tue Dec 23 23:21:21 UTC 2003
It's also easy to compile your own 2.6 Download it from www.kernel.org,
extract it in /usr/src, cd into the directory and run
make menuconfig (or config, or xconfig, or gconfig, or whatever your poison)
make bzImage
make install
make modules
make modules_install
'make install' will even update grub (the readme only mentioned lilo, but it
apparently handles either???). Granted this takes a little longer than an
rpm but its pretty straight forward. You just need to make sure you don't
mount devfs on boot, have ext3 support compiled in (not a module), and check
off any drivers that you will require. Providing those things you should
have a working 2.6.0. And honestly it seems much much much faster than the
2.4 kernel provided with Fedora.
I did enter the line:
none /sys sysfs 0 0
in /etc/fstab as a precaution based on everyone else's input on the list,
and created the directory /sys.
Other than that straight forward :)
Jason
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