Burning a kernel

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 11:47 -0500, MK wrote:
> ric moore brags:
> 
> >> ps. you are not BURNING a new kernel, you are COMPILING one.  but
> >> call
> >> it "rolling" and you might be ok
> > 
> > heheheh, back when I would install the latest and greatest on my 486
> > DX2/66, rolling did not have the eclat of the word "burning" as it  
> > took forever, made my head hurt and my eyes burn from watching it.  
> > But, back when, the speed up was noticeable when I did that.
> 
> wow, thanks for this piece of etymology, i thot you waz just ignorant. 
Ha! You thought right! I thought I knew some stuff, but it seems even
those points bear scrutiny! 
  
> i do seem to remember watching text scRoll for hours, it seemed cool at  
> the time and gave me some to eat noodles.

You had better luck that I as I would make some ignorant mistake, the
kernel either didn't make right or didn't work at all, and then I'd edit
my mistake and do it again. I usually got it right on the third, forth
or fifth time. <huge grin> But, I stuck to it. I'm good at that. 

> > What's got me into a
> > kernel "compiling" mood is that playing a movie DVD and my system
> > talking to the serial port to my stinkin' modem ain't cutting it.
> > Damn, you would think an Athlon64-3200, running a 32bit OS with 2 gigs
> > of memory could handle it. It happens whether I use Xine, VLC or any
> > other player.
> 
> well ric i am running a P4 with 440 megs, downloading (thru a serial  
> port), writing this in balsa, and ignoring "dodgeball" on xine plus a  
> few other things and everything runs peachy with less than half the  
> memory used and the CPU @ 30-70%.  I almost always run root.  I'd be  
> pissed off if i couldn't customize the kernel, it may bear some  
> responsibilities.

Is this when you play a DVD?? For whatever reason, it hogs the hell out
of the system, but top doesn't show a huge anomaly. <swears again> I
think a kernel rolling session is coming. Ric

-- 
================================================
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar
http://www.wayward4now.net  <---down4now too
================================================