On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Nick Reinking wrote:
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:37:41 -0500 From: Nick Reinking nick@twoevils.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] kernel on wiki server
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 02:21:55PM -0500, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
(Nick Reinking nick@twoevils.org): On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 11:50:18AM -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
No offense, Nick, but we've been doing this for a long time, with some very high traffic websites, and Jason knows what he's doing.
To be fair, so have I. :) But, if you think the extra risk and work is justified, go right ahead.
I tend to tread the middle ground myself--I have a kernel built from RedHat source RPMs using a RedHat-supplied alternate config, with one or two minor tweaks.
The big win for me at home was compiling for the Athlon.
Yeah, I believe the rpm I quoted earlier was compiled for the Athlon, something I doubt about the current kernel (which was compiled for i686).
If you're talking specifically for RH 7.2 or 7.3, that's what kernel-2.4.18-27.7.x.athlon.rpm is for. If it's 8.0, you've got your kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0.athlon.rpm. But I've always used a kernel customized and tweaked, ever since I was compiling with Cyrix 686 optimization, possibly even earlier. I do it with Athlon now myself; although my system is mostly RH 8.0, I use the raw kernel.org kernel, configured to have just the goodies I need/want, and do it well. I very much recommend a customized kernel, even given the availability of Athlon-optimized RPMs.