The Tuesday 2004-09-07 at 08:19 -0400, Damon Register wrote:
This last weekend I took a shot at trying to improve my system. I hadn't tried building a kernel since 7.2 and I discovered that a LOT has changed since then.
The important instructions are here: /usr/share/doc/packages/kernel-source/README.SUSE It seems this is the proper sequence now: make cloneconfig make menuconfig (or xconfig, or config as prefered) make install make modules_install (I invert the order of these two) mkinitrd Don't forget to adjust your 'extraversion' setting.
I realized that there were many options that could take a full day to go through. It's no wonder that this system seems slower if there are so many options?
Simply by choosing your particular processor, you should get some improvement - although some say this is not necessary for 2.6 kernels, I doubt it (I have not seen a confirmation of it). Then you can remove all subsystems you know you don't have, like 1000 mb/s ethernet :-) But removing things not necessarily improves speed, IMO, because as they are mostly compiled as modules, they don't get loaded unless needed. In any case, browsing the config for those things can take quite a long time. Don't waste to much time removing things, just the biggest and easier to spot. For example, your machine will not have acpi (to old): dissable it. Don't remove apm stuff: you can disable it from the boot line, as you may need it to power your computer off, for example. It should not slow your machine. Make sure you can boot the vmlinuz.shiped version of the kernel. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson