Custom Kernels

[Mark Haney]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 10:59, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 10:36, Wayne Leutwyler wrote:
> > Quick question.
> > 
> > Would I see any performance benefits from building my own custom kernel? One 
> > of the things I see is that the stock kernel is set for a Pentium II, but 
> > since this machine I am using is a Pentium III, I was wondering if that would 
> > give me any benefit.  Also I try on turn off things I know I wont need on 
> > this PC. 
> 
> Any kind of performance tuning should start with analyzing what you are
> using the machine for and spending the time to identify where most of
> your resources are being spent.  
> 
> Simply jumping in and frobbing the knobs is generally not good
> practice.  In most cases it will adversely affect your systems
> performance instead of improving it.
> 
Can you say 'frobbing the knobs' in a public forum?

> 
> -- 
> Scot L. Harris
> webid at cfl.rr.com
> 
> The absence of labels [in ECL] is probably a good thing.
> 		-- T. Cheatham 

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Mark Haney
Network Administrator
InterAct Public Safety Systems
mhaney at interactsys.com
Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 
11:03:10 up 3:25, 1 user, load average: 8.50, 8.10, 8.23 
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