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