-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Shields wrote:
> Sane defaults? Sounds a bit redundant to me. You will have to > tweak the kernel sources since your not using genkernel (my > experience with Redhat is minimal, I assume they use a type of > generic kernel?). There's no way around it. Short story, if you > want "sane defaults", stick with the genkernel. > > On 10/1/05, *John Jolet* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > I've got a farm of 32-bit redhat 7 web servers that we're about > to start > migrating to gentoo on amd64 servers. One question my boss had > that I can't > seem to answer is this. Redhat kernels are supposedly tuned for > "sane > defaults" and I've done no "tuning" at all on the gentoo > boxes. Using gentoo > sources and NOT genkernel, can anyone give me some hints about > what I need to > look at? I'd be very embarrased if I replaced older 32-bit > redhat 7 boxes > with 64-bit gentoo boxes and the migration failed because I > didn't change > some parameter to tweak these guys for apache/zope. > -- > John Jolet > Your On-Demand IT Department > 512-762-0729 > www.jolet.net <http://www.jolet.net> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org <mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org> mailing list > > > > > -- > - Mark Shields IIRC, RedHat kernels are relatively generic in that they have almost everything turned on, and/or build the modules so that they can maximize the hardware compatibility. So it is likely that there will be tones of stuff that was turned on, or had modules build for it, that you didn't need. The same will likely be the case for the gentoo kernel. You're best bet is to spend the time on one system going through each kernel option (within reason), if you don't know what it does, read the help and/or turn it off (it will give a recommended setting in the Help). Once you've got your config, use that to build the kernels for the rest fo your systems. I know it's a lot of work, but once you've done it, subsequent configs/compiles for kernel upgrades, security patches, etc. will go MUCH faster. 1) Because you'll have a pre-defined kernel config. 2) You'll know what most of the kernel options are (at least superficially) and which ones you need enabled. You'll just have to read the help for any new ones that pop up. ;-) HTH - -- gentux echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDPuqXLYGSSmmWCZMRAhxlAKDrXCbDtafJPdObBrot58t9Zxuv8ACgjQtw g2gJWap5M6/a415dDccJpdU= =NRaR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
