Re: Speeding up debian ... ?

[Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow@alum.mit.edu>]

I routinely recompile my kernel to match my installed hardware and to
get options not set in the stock kernel.

I don't see how it would be dangerous - you are only taking advantage of
capabilities the processor offers anyway - it's not like you are
overclocking the CPU or something.

You might turn off a setting your system needs, but that's avoidable by
knowing what hardware you have, and perhaps reading a bit on the
internet (hint: Google is your friend).

You might also look into the low-latency patch (it's available as a
Debian patch).  I'm not using it yet, I've just started with Debian and
I'm still shaking out my setup.

By "speed" you might mean processing power, like if you're doing serious
simulations or such, or you might mean responsiveness.  Responsiveness
might be helped by the low-latency patch.

Cheers,
Bret

On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 22:29, David selby wrote:
>  Hello,
> 
> A while ago I read about speeding up linux by re-compiling libc & the 
> XF86 to take advantages of the installed processor. In my case a 700MHz 
> PIII.
> 
> Would there be much of a speed increase, enough to warrent doing it ?
> 
> It also strikes me as potentialy dangerous to my systems health, any 
> comments ?
> 
> Dave
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Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow@alum.mit.edu>