JohnS wrote: > On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 21:46 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: >> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 7:38 PM, JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 16:17 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: >>>> 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 >>> --- >>> Ross, never mind I just yummed it onto a machine there faq is inheritly >>> wrong. >> The FAQ is only correct in respect to the project's view. >> >> Redhat has a custom oprofile that works with their custom kernels, so >> stock oprofile from the project's site IS incompatible, but that's OK >> cause RH provides one that works with their distro. >> >> -Ross > --- > Correct as i found out. Would this also be suitable for testing efficiency loss from running under VMware or other virtualization methods? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com