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Tips for tweaking your kernel.

!! How can I make my kernel boot faster?

If you remove things you dont need from the kernel, like SCSI support if you dont have SCSI devices and wont ever want to use a USB Mass Storage device
such as a Digital Camera, you end up with a smaller kernel - which will in turn boot faster. I've not measured how much benefit you get from this however

!! How can I improve performance on a desktop machine? (or on a slower machine)

There are a number of patches around at the moment to reduce latency or provide realtime support for Linux. This is a fairly dynamic field at the moment and the best way to keep up to date with this is to go to http://lwn.net and search for realtime or latency.

See also SysControls, KernelPreemption, LowLatency, LinuxOnTheDesktop
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Last edited on Monday, August 15, 2005 4:35:48 pm by IanMcDonald

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