Charles Philip Chan wrote:
Basil Chupin <blchupin@iinet.net.au> writes:
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Who would have thought that the kernel in oS is designed for a server (but then oS *is* the test bed for the commercial version, right? - stupidos!) and can be made to perform better if compiled with the options described in this thread?
The default kernel is adequate for most desktop use. It is just not a low latency kernel for heavy multimedia work. This is why I suggest OpenSUSE put out different kernels for different purposes- a server kernel, a balanced kernel for masses and a low lantency kernel for heavy multimedia.
Good suggestion - give the user the choice of which version of kernel to install. However, there is one parameter which needs catering for: the actual CPU brand.model. Perhaps there could be a module which could be selected by the user and then used by the kernel to get max. performance without having to recompile the kernel. For example, the default pae kernel installed here has the CPU Family set to generic 586 and I had to reset it to Athlon when recompiling it. Oh, perhaps this should/could be a new thread, but what will happen to the system using a compiled kernel (as you suggested earlier and for which I thank you) when a new kernel version for the copy of existing oS is released by openSuSE? Will such a release be automatically applied against the pae-named kernel, which is still sitting in /boot or will the newly compiled kernel be affected? Do you know? Ciao. -- "With the portion of mankind that is above average one may speak of higher things; with those below it, one may not." Confucius -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org