On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> AND yes a smaller kernel is faster i would imagine although i've never gotten
> mine that small.....
Whoops! I should have mentioned that was done with make bzImage so that's
the compressed size :) I'd love to have the kernel that size though!
The stock redhat kernels on my machine are:
1603112 Jun 19 18:55 vmlinux-2.2.16-3
619492 Jun 19 18:55 vmlinuz-2.2.16-3
..and the version I did was:
445228 Sep 4 17:33 vmlinuz-2.2.16_rob
Some of the lesser used stuff is modularized....not much though.
For a while there it was very intruiging for me to spend time reading
through the little help buttons on the sidebar of the xconfig
script...doing anything to optimize the kernel without going into code.
There were a few good tips in the linux source directory too..I can't
remember which text file they were in, but the docs were quite
informative. It's kind of an obsession to compile a kernel, test, check
for installed modules, and then try to get it as minimal as possible. I'm
using icewm on X and I compiled that from source and there really is a
noticeable speed increase from the i386 package....especially with
something like that. I'd love to compile X on this system, but I got the
source and I couldn't even understand the directions! :)
>
> hmmm benchmarks anyone? :)
>
Sure, that could be fun! Anyone care to post instructions for various
tests??? Anyone care to keep tabs on the results and post them in
numerical order? Anyone care to continue on with this crazee thread? :)
Rob
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