On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 21:23 +0530, Rohan Kulkarni wrote: > Hello, > I will then download the 2.6.23 kernel from kernel.org and > compile it > Thanks -:) A couple of the things before you start rolling your own kernel. A. Be sure that you actually under what you are doing - or things will start breaking... fast. B. Once you start using your own kernel, all problems/bugs/etc should go into bugzilla.kernel.org instead of bugzilla.redhat.com. C. At least in my experience the performance increase in rolling your own kernel was negligible. YMV, of course. - Gilboa