Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

[andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com>]

Andrei Popescu wrote:

On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:58:53 +0000
andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

  

Łukasz Andrzejak wrote:
    

On 1/4/07, *Hugo Vanwoerkom* <hvw59601@care2.com 
<mailto:hvw59601@care2.com>> wrote:



    Your kernel config is off: for 1GB:

    ...
    CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
    # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set
    # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
    # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G is not set
    CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT=y
    # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G is not set
    # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_1G is not set
    ...


i say go with this - it sound like a good start.


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Pozdrawiam

Łukasz Andrzejak 
      

OK I'll be willing to try this - where is the file that Hugo was 
referring to in which I can change this, or is this rolling a new
kernel with these configs?

Cheers
    

Install the bigmem linux-image

Regards,
Andrei
  

Andrei & Andrew

Thanks for the suggestion(s). I am presuming that there is a Debian-way of compiling one's own kernel with the configs and bigmem image. Can someone point me in the direction of some decent (easy-to-follow for we kernel-rolling-impaired folk) documentation. The main Debian site docs (e.g. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html ) are still referring to the 2.4 kernel except at the end (7.4) where the docs state that udev is a dynamic replacement for /dev/ which, to be honest, doesn't make a whole bunch of sense to me.
TIA