"John" <jknappers-argentia at hotmail.com> writes: > Does anybody knows what I do miss or what is going wrong? I'm not sure, but... > For the curios: > Why to recompile the kernel? > I want to rebuild the kernel because I created a patch to decrease the > kernel timer frequency from 1000 to 100 HZ. The CentOS4.6 kernel doesn't > have the divider option available in CentOS5.2 This prevent timing problems > and high CPU load in VMware ESX. kernel-vm packages have already been prepared that make this exact change. See this forum post[1] for links to RPMs of this kernel. Will those meet your needs? - Michael 1. http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=51552&topic_id=14671 -- mouse, n: A device for pointing at the xterm in which you want to type. Confused by the strange files? I cryptographically sign my messages. For more information see <http://www.elehack.net/resources/gpg>.