Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

[Geoff Reidy <greendog@pacific.net.au>]

Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 10:42:45AM +0000, andy wrote:

>> 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.
> 
> 

Andy, if you have a P4 then install linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 and you'll
get access to your 1 GB memory.

Geoff