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On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 23:57 +0200, Marcin Hlybin wrote: > Hello, > > I always configure and compile a kernel throwing out all unusable options and > I never use modules in production environment (especially for the router). > But my superior has got the other opinion - he claims that distribution > kernel is quite good and in these days optimization has no sense because of > powerful hadrware. he's basically right; the gain you get by disabling the generic things a distribution enabled is way down in the noise. There are some compromises a distribution makes to keep the number of kernels they ship down, and I suspect the worst possible case would add up to say 5%. (on a Fedora / RHEL that would probably be a SMP system with less than 1Gb of ram) On the plus side you get the maintenance, building and integration done for you, including the security fixes. There is a third "advantage" in using a distro kernel; there is less chance of a mistake in the sense of picking a config option that turns out to be really bad in hindsight. Now that doesn't mean that I want to discourage people from building their own kernel, far from that, but at the same time, the advantages you get shouldn't be overstated and in a business environment it is probably not a good use of time nowadays. - 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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