Can recompiling your kernel lead to speed improvements

[Leon Goldstein]

Collins Richey wrote:

>On 12/6/06, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
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>  My PC is fast
>enough to plow through even Gentoo updates in no time, so why would I
>want to tinker with the kernel?
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I found that recompiling for the specific CPU made a big difference on 
my old Compaq Presario.

This box originally had a K6-2 350 mHz; recompiling shaved a few seconds 
off boot and KDE start up.
When I upbrained the box to K6-III+ 450 mHz (clocked to 500 mHz) the 
performance difference was really noteworthy.
I've done some timings and the K6-III+ box equals or exceeds a Celeron 
850 box.  Both systems run Libranet 2.8.1 and 3.0 Debian.  (The 850 
Celeron box has a recompiled kernel too.)  Libranet's admin tool for 
kernel recompilation makes recompiling a kernel easy. 

What a shame Libranet is no more.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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