I've needed int0 (timer) to be sharable, and to change the basic timing interval, so I've had to modify & compile kernels from 7.1->7.3

Since the hardware had 64MB RAM as a fixed limit, stripping the kernel of unnecessary stuff was also helpful.

I''ve not yet dug that far with my new CentOS.

Brian Brunner brian.t.brunner@gai-tronics.com (610)796-5838

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On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 10:57, Sam Drinkard wrote:

Les, is there any performance hit by using the stock kernel? One reason I ask, is the application that hopefully will be running if we can get the compile done is very number-crunching intensive. In fact, that is about all it does do aside from generating a few files. Altho I've got more than adequate horsepower to handle the job, I was just curious if there were any "standard reasons" to either build or not build.

I haven't built a custom kernel since the modular approach included everything I needed somewhere in the RedHat 6.x era. I can't think of any reason to do it other than needing to add drivers that won't work as modules.