[CentOS] measuring kernel speed

On May 8, 2010, at 8:35 AM, Mag Gam <magawake at gmail.com> wrote:

> At our Physics research labs we do a lot with low latency networks. We
> have been using Centos for over 3 years now and its been great! We
> would like to tune and optimize our setup by removing unneeded
> packages -- kernel modules to be specific. I was wondering, how does
> one measure the speed of the kernel. Is that even possible?

Use oprofile.

-Ross