On 10/21/06, Anders Johansson
On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 21:57 +0530, Duff Mckagan wrote:
I was just asking whats the difference.
Actually, I wanted to customize the kernel for my machine ( with a kernel from kernel.org) cuz I am not quite satisfied with the performance of my system with the default kernel that SuSE has installed.
Have you made any attempts at isolating what the performance problem is?
Just putting in a new kernel won't magically make your system faster. If there is a performance problem, identify what it is, and what is causing it. That will make it a lot easier to find solutions for it. Most things aren't due to the kernel or compilation flags (something most gentoo users fail to understand) but because of fundamental flaws in algorithms. Changing a kernel or a compile parameter might gain you a few percent better performance, but only a serious analysis will net you real gains
Then again, most things are running as fast as they can, and any performance improvements will come from improvements in hardware
So I was in a kinda dilemma as to what procedure to follow..install the kernel from kernel.org or with YaST. I guess the YaST thing would be
easier,
but I am not sure I will be able to reconfigure the new kernel once it is installed.
You can't compile things with YaST. You can only install ready-built packages. If you want to build the latest kernel from kernel.org you're stuck with doing it by hand
Yeah..I understand I won't be able to compile using YaST. Just had a dilemma as to install a new pre-compiled kernel or get a kernel from kernel.org and build it myself. But like I said, unless you really analyse your performance complaints,
you're more or less practising voodoo
Well..as you have rightly said, improvement in performance will come by improvement in Hardware. I understand that my hardware isn't too great but the problem is quite serious. Whenever I minimize or maximize windows, and if I am playing amaroK at the same time, then amaroK stops playing until the window maximizes or minimizes and then continues playing. This doesn't happen on other Linices I have installed (Slackware Current) . I didn't happen on SuSE 9.3 either. But only on this version...I am experiencing this problem. SuSE 10.0 --
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