2.6.23 kernel

[Chris G]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 07:43:21PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> 
> > C. At least in my experience the performance increase in rolling your
> > own kernel was negligible. YMV, of course.
> 
> I tend to agree. I used to experiment with rolling my own and never really 
> experienced any noticeable benefit. Of course, if there is some option you 
> really need, that is disabled in the FC version then yes, but I bet these are 
> rather esoteric cases.
> 
It surely depends a bit on how much capacity (in various ways) the
system has to spare.  If there's ample spare memory, processor power,
etc. then a small decrease in kernel footprint is going to make little
difference.

I have only built custom kernels recently when I needed patches,
drivers, etc. that weren't yet in the standard kernels.

-- 
Chris Green