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On 8 Nov 2009, at 00:10, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> using a livecds kernel is probably the worst decision out there. |
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> http://www.kroah.com/lkn/ |
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> as you can see, you don't have to download it. |
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> Or just do it step for step, reading help files. |
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> seccomp? Except Andrea Arcangeli nobody uses it. Can be deactivated. |
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> I2O? |
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> Almost nobody uses it. Especially not 'commodity' hardware, out it |
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> goes. Numa? |
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> Do you have a multi-socket system? No? Then you don't need it. ... |
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> you can |
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> remove a lot of cruft that way. Namespaces - you don't need it? Kick |
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> 'em out. |
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> Group scheduling? Sure, a great way to reduce performance... |
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But Volker, if it takes me an hour to decrapify my kernel config and |
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make it faster, it will probably take 1000 years for those speed |
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improvements to pay off. |
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If I had unlimited time then I would love to read that book. I really |
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LIKE the idea of decrapifying my kernel config. But realistically, any |
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time I spend on it is time wasted, for which no difference will be |
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appreciable. |
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Stroller. |
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