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.
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Les Mikesell
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