On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 00:22 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 11:58, John Wendel wrote: > >Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >In the thread "Re: How NSA access was built into Windows" > > > > > >I believe you will have to build a generic kernel.org kernel > >configured without that support, something I have underway right now, > >using 2.6.20-rc4. I was amazed at the number of options I found > >turned on that a proper 'make oldconfig' should absolutely never have > >turned on. My scripts take care of everything but grub.conf for a > >kernel install, so when its done all I should have to do is reboot > >since I'm already running 2.6.20-rc4. Several things I found may even > >account for the apparent slowness of later kernels. Things like 15 > >seconds to launch firefox on an xp-2800 athlon with a gig of ram? > > > > > >Gene, > > > >Could you share some of these "Several things I found"? I'm having the > >same problem with slow firefox launching on a very similar system. I'm > >currently running vanilla kernel 2.6.19.2. > > > >Thanks, > > > >John > > Basicly I did a make xconfig in the kernel tree I had already built and > was running, with an eye to getting rid of that which isn't of any > perceived usefullness to me. If, as you go thru the xconfig screens item > by item, you read the help that pops into the lower right corner of the > window, and it says "if you don't know what this option does, you > probably don't need it, say N". By the time I got down to the bottom > of 'block devices' I'll bet I'd turned off a hundred things that were > being built, and which had no earthly use to me, but the previous 'make > oldconfig' had enabled them. With this newer compiler seemingly being as > slow as it it, that cut the build time by about 7 minutes, down to 24 > IIRC, but I can recall building a kernel for this machine in under 8 > minutes back in the mists of time. And the system, once booted to it, > does seem a bit snappier at some operations. I think I can probably cut > that much more the next time I have half an hour to work in an xconfig > window. > > Firefox launch times? Not a huge speedup there so far. Sorry. Are you going to try to disable SElinux in the kernel and see what happens?? Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
