On Wednesday 17 January 2007 01:36, Ric Moore wrote: >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 Already did, Ric. Logwatch has a bunch of complaints from pam but things are working. It indicated some sort of disappointment over a cron started amanda backup session, but the session itself ran as usual. >-- >================================================ >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 >================================================ -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
