Linux Kernel Network Subsystem Patching

[Aruna Hewapathirane]

>" lighter and faster"  that means go with the "GCC screen saver"
linux distribution or as its also known by the name  gentoo.   >:)

Let me clarify and explain the need 'why' I want it 'lighter and faster' .
I have a ancient D915 motherboard ( Please don't laugh ) with 2GB Ram and
on board integrated video with a Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU runni9ng at
3.06GHz.

Recently I noticed top showing me a lot more than the usual load average
and I thought let me hyperthread, enabled in BIOS but strangely some
applications actually took longer to load and some were slow than before ?
Also had strange incoming connections from all over, so being paranoid I
installed mac-changer in a shell script so at each boot it changes my MAC
then the load average did drop but it is still not the 0.02 a pristine
install used to show me.

While compiling the kernel it took for ever, and if I render something in
Blender I can go get groceries from No-Frills drop in at cafe time to say
hello to my crack head buddies and have a ciggy then walk home only to see
it's still not done. Takes a long time so these are a few reasons I want to
comiple and tweak a kernel that matches my hardware and hopefully will have
a responsive system again instead of this sluggish beast that is a pain to
work on at times :-)

Oh, the desktop ( am running gnome classic ) sudeenly totally freezes and
the only way out is to CTRL+F1 and drop into a shell then sudo shutdown -r
now which I am getting weary of now...

I will checkout gentoo thank's ted.


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> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Aruna Hewapathirane <
> aruna.hewapathirane-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>> >It has been years since I built a kernel -- there rarely seems to be a
>> >need.
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>> This is my first one. Simply wanted to see if I can build a kernel to
>> match and fit my hardware, the documentation says that can make things
>> lighter and faster ?
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>> >I recommend that you start with clean source, without your patch, and
>> >try building.  It will likely be a learning experience.
>> Understood and will comply and yes very much a learning process here :-)
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>> >Only patch after you have perfected building and installing.
>> Understood again,,
>>
>> >I infer from previous posts that you are using Ubuntu.  Ubuntu has its
>> >own packaged kernels and hence its own protocol for building a kernel.
>> >Try
>> >(1) starting from one of their kernel source packages, and
>> >(2) using their official method of building the kernel.
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>> I have a soft spot for Ubuntu because I cut my teeth on Karmic But am
>> looking at Cent-OS, Fedora also Backtrack( Kali) and Slackware. Slackware
>> one needs advanced know-how and knowledge to configure which am yet to
>> attain, not for newbies I felt. So am not chained to ubuntu am open to
>> alternatives... just thought knowing the kernel compiling and build process
>> will help later to tweak things so I have a system that is fast.
>>
>> >That should minimize the chance of problems.
>> Many thank's Hugh for all the pointers :-)
>>
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