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Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote: > arjan@fenrus.demon.nl <arjan@fenrus.demon.nl>: > > Of course there are other settings that do have impact (CPU type mostly, > > maybe memory layout) but other than that... distros already ship several > > binary versions (last I counted Red Hat ships 11 or so with RHL72) to > > account for CPU type and amount etc. > > OK. Scenario #2: Hmm. This scenario seems totally bogus. [...] > Some time back he set up a Linux box for Joe Foonly over at Joe's > Garage. Joe calls him back and says "Hey, kid, I gotta problem here. > Lot of hits on that website and the machine's getting sluggish when > I'm doing my books with GnuCash on it at the same time. [...] > the box is > an older machine, a 586-based PCI/ISA hybrid from around 1995, and > only has 32MiB of memory in it. [...] Hmmm, 32MiB of RAM on a 586-class machine, and its doing useful work as both a webserver and running GnuCash? Care to construct something more real-world? Even at that: > Melvin thinks this is no problem, he'll start by building a new kernel > with some stuff trimmed out to leave more RAM for userspace. But... > uh oh! He nuked that source tree because free disk was getting kind > of tight, and the .config went with it. Looks like Melvin's going to > have to reconstruct his configuration by hand. > > "Crap." Melvin thinks. "I don't remember what kind of network card I > compiled in. Am I going to have to open this puppy up just to eyeball > the hardware?" Uh, no. Try `lsmod`. > Autoconfigure saves the day. Autoconfigure not necessary; read the output of lsmod, or read modules.conf. Problem solved. Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <linux@discworld.dyndns.org> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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