Anyone rolling a kernel nowadays?

[Basil Chupin]

On 10/08/2010 15:19, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 15:03 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
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>> On 10/08/2010 14:56, Ric Moore wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 13:23 -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 14:05 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
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>>>>> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 12:49 -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
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>>>>>> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 13:26 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
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>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>> 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
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>>>> 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
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>>> 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
>>>
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>> Hit the SHIFT key when it is about to boot - this will bring up the boot
>> menu where you select your choice of kernel.
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> OK! It'll blow or go. I'll let you know! Ric
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The let's get on with the...SHOW!

BC



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