Kernel tuning

[Michael Torrie]

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 14:53, admin@datazap.net wrote:
> Basicly you edit the kernel config file, and removing all the support for
> hardware you don't have. You also remove support for option you are not
> going to be using. Then you rebuild your kernel. You need to be careful
> with this, because it could cause somethings to not work, or you could
> build a kernel that will not boot.

No, kernel tuning is mainly the changing of parameters in various /proc
entries to optimize the machine for it's use.  ie caching, memory usage,
tcp/ip parameters.  Kernel tuning is a topic that would be worthy of a
book, but I haven't seen any on the subject, yet.

Michael



> 
> Good luck!
> 
> 
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Jim wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:10:54 -0600
> > From: Jim <jsacem316@netzero.com>
> > Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> > To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> > Subject: Kernel tuning
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know anything about kernel tuning?
> > Jim
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