On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 07:43:21PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote: > > > C. At least in my experience the performance increase in rolling your > > own kernel was negligible. YMV, of course. > > I tend to agree. I used to experiment with rolling my own and never really > experienced any noticeable benefit. Of course, if there is some option you > really need, that is disabled in the FC version then yes, but I bet these are > rather esoteric cases. > It surely depends a bit on how much capacity (in various ways) the system has to spare. If there's ample spare memory, processor power, etc. then a small decrease in kernel footprint is going to make little difference. I have only built custom kernels recently when I needed patches, drivers, etc. that weren't yet in the standard kernels. -- Chris Green
