On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:19:29AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > This is the point where I disagree. I really hate having to build my > > own kernel just to do some tests with a fresh installation. > > so you have spent good money on a high-end SMP machine but you're not > willing to put in 5(*) minutes work (running "make config" or menuconfig or > xconfig) to build a kernel which is optimised for your hardware. > > strange. Yes, really strange. When I had money I spent it on buying a SMP machine since I wanted to experiment with parallel code. It's now only half a year since I actually had the money to buy two PII-400 processors to actually make use of the SMP feature. Not to mention that the board has 2 UW-SCSI Slots but I have only a 4GB DDRS drive which is slow as hell compared to current disks. And it is not 5 minutes time but 5 minutes on top on each installation. And, BTW: It's even 5 minutes if I don't need to build a new kernel since I have to reboot to get into the new system and that takes quite a long time on this system even without Zope being installed. I wouldn't have commented this but I am getting really pissed if somebody accuses me of not being willing to spend x minutes on something. I am doing all my Debian work in my spare time and if 5 minutes of that perhaps 60 a day go away for senseless work I think it is okay if I don't like that. > of machine if you have a bunch of similar or identical machines). after > that, it's less work because you can re-use the old .config file and > just run "make oldconfig" to handle any new compile-time options. It's even less work since I have my kernel .deb around. Anyway, I would like to have an smp kernel readily available in Debian. Mandrake for example installs the SMP kernel by default if the target machine is a smp box. If another kernel-image is needed to support that I can life with only UP. Basically I don't care if our distributed kernels squeeze the last 10% out of the processor(s). But in an ideal world it should at least support all installed processors so that I don't lose 100% compared to a custom kernel. Anyway, if it's impossible to do that without adding bloat I can do without. cu Torsten
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