The Speed Factor -- Kubuntu vs. Gentoo

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/6/15 Michael Leone <turgon at mike-leone.com>:
>> Where can one find information about building an optimized kernel
>> under Ubuntu? Googling uncovered some amateur websites written by
>> self-proclaimed experts with 15 minutes experience (blogs) compiling
>> kernels under Ubuntu, but where can one find information written by an
>> experienced Linux system admin?
>
> Now, that's a good question. The answer is more along the lines of
> knowing what is in your system, and so what options you can check off.
> For example, if you know you have no SCSI cards, uncheck all of them;
> it will make the compile go much faster. Ditto for things like
> firewire support, or that odd I2C stuff. Also you could uncheck all
> the other disk and network controllers, etc, that you don't have and
> won't ever have.
>
> You do take the risk that if you add such a device in future, you will
> need to re-compile to get it to work. But hey, everything's a
> trade-off. :-)

Thanks!

>>> Any OS can be fine-tuned; I think his request was more of a general "How
>>> do I fine tune my Linux installation?". Services that can be shut off,
>>> etc. This is different for all users, of course.
>>
>> Where are some good places to start?
>
> Fraid I don't know of any for Linux. If it were Windows, I'd say Black
> Viper's site.
> <http://www.blackviper.com/>
>
> He lists most of the popular services running under Windows, and when
> and why you could turn them off. It does result in lower memory usage,
> I know that. But I don't recall seeing a similar optimizing site for
> Linux services. Oh, there are some you can easily figure out - turn
> off telnet if you don't use it, and instead use only SSH, etc.
>

That's good to know and may help me slim the VirtualBox machine that I
must run for SolidWorks.

Dotan Cohen

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