Re: Why compiling.
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012 schrieb Raffaele Morelli:
> 2012/7/10 Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sirtcp@gmail.com>
>
> > This is a very basic question but confusing me for very long. so i
> > need your help.
> >
> > why people do compiling. i have heard many time that people are
> > compiling kernel on debian.
> > what is the reason for this? i am using debian for almost 1.5 year
> > and have been using it on different platform in CLI mode. but no
> > need of compiling in this time window.
>
> Sometimes compiling kernel is needed because you want to add features
> not enabled in the stock kernel, some other because you want to remove
> features.
Like TuxOnIce which is still way faster than in kernel hibernation:
I talk about 500 MB/s write and 800 MB/s read speed with an Intel SSD 320,
as compare to about 350 MB/s with in kernel hibernation.
Although it still does some issues on this ThinkPad T520 so I switched to
mainline kernel hibernation.
Or I wanted to try latencytop again for my Linux Performance Analysis &
Tuning trainings. Option currently not enabled in Debian Wheezy/Sid
kernels due to performance reasons (memory usage).
I didn´t compile own kernels for about a year or so, but when I found out
that its about 10 minutes on this machine I compiled some kernels again.
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