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Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?



On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 10:42:45AM +0000, andy wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:58:53 +0000
> >andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> >>??ukasz Andrzejak wrote:
> >>>On 1/4/07, *Hugo Vanwoerkom* <hvw59601@care2.com 
> >>><mailto:hvw59601@care2.com>> wrote:
>
> >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

I use the stock amd64 Etch kernel with my 1 GB ram stick and it all
shows up with no tweaking at all.

Doug.



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