Anyone rolling a kernel nowadays?

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 15:03 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 10/08/2010 14:56, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 13:23 -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> >    
> >> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 14:05 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> >>      
> >>> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 12:49 -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> >>>        
> >>>> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 13:26 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> >>>>          
> >>>>> I hear that, it's just that my AMD64 3200 is starting to get a little
> >>>>> long in the tooth (it was Gee Whiz! when I first bought it) so I figured
> >>>>> that the speed gains that I got on my 486/DX2-66, back when I rolled
> >>>>> kernels routinely, would also pep up this machine. I sure don't need
> >>>>> references to Intel or ARM or X-box CPU's taking up kernel real-estate.
> >>>>> Besides, it's just for this machine and me. :) Ric
> >>>>>            
> >>>> I think it's only the old folk [not literally old folk] who do that.  I
> >>>> know I still roll custom Kernels on all my machines and especially on my
> >>>> servers and they're flagged as coming from me so me and clients know
> >>>> this is the case. I like and love my upstream providers but they use a
> >>>> generic kernel and it makes me a sad panda because I, like you, like a
> >>>> clean system, therefore why do I have references for all the crap not in
> >>>> my machine that belongs to another machine in their data center?  I've
> >>>> even fought with some upstream providers of this, stop saving a few
> >>>> gigabytes of space when storage is cheap now when you can cleanup your
> >>>> clients systems and build images for specific server sets, alas they
> >>>> don't care.  Anyways too much off topic, I know lots including myself
> >>>> who always use a custom kernel no matter what.
> >>>>          
> >>> Is the speed/performance gain noticeable? Thanks, Ric
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>        
> >> Yes there is a significant amount of overhead removed with custom
> >> kernels, especially on servers where we need that overhead removed so
> >> that we can utilize the hardware as much as we can.  You can also do
> >> some basic optimizations in /etc/sysctl.conf
> >>      
> > Before I hit the reset button... the "hit the button" menu feature to
> > grub during boot seems to have gone away. What do I edit to give me some
> > time to select another kernel, in case this one blows up?? I'd like to
> > be able to pick n chose another kernel from a menu list.<whew!>  I hope
> > this works! Ric
> >    
> 
> Hit the SHIFT key when it is about to boot - this will bring up the boot 
> menu where you select your choice of kernel.

OK! It'll blow or go. I'll let you know! Ric