Wayne Leutwyler wrote: > Are there any benefits from building a custom kernel, aside from a smaller > kernel and smaller modules foot print. Normally, no. But the Fedora kernel (at least the 686 version) comes compiled with 4G/4G support. This makes handling very large memory systems (16 GB and up) much easier, but comes with a cost in performance. Alan Cox put it at 10%: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-April/msg01872.html x86-64 inherently does not need this mode. James. -- E-mail address: james | NT is a one-legged cow, but even a one legged cow is @westexe.demon.co.uk | fast when it's got 160+ rockets strapped to it. | -- Nick Manka | But that's not that impressive if all you can make it | do is go around in circles. -- Darrell Fuhriman
