On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:21:33PM +0100, Jorn Argelo wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Danny Pansters wrote:
> >
> >Dan,
> > I know that this has been discussed a few times before, but IMO
> >running a slightly stripped down kernel (i.e. custom, not GENERIC)
> >actually proves to be helpful in increasing boot times (if options
> >were added statically) and compile times if [(# of options added) < (#
> >of options in GENERIC)].
> I can confirm this too. I noticed on both desktop and servers the boot
> time can be decreased by stripping the kernel configuration of stuff you
> don't need. I don't have any hard facts to prove this but this is what
> my personal experience is.
>
> Jorn
> >
Dan, Jorn,
Thanks for another tip to squeeze the last picosecond out of my
elderly box! (I just began re-building gcc-43 after its 12mar07
update; it may be better at loop-unrolling than gcc-3.x. Every
jot helps;)
gary
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