Linux Kernel Network Subsystem Patching

[Aruna Hewapathirane]

> "Hyperthreading" isn't all it's cracked up to be.  In theory it's
> supposed to help a lot, in practice it can actually slow down a machine,
> as you've seen.

I know eh ?  I was frankly very taken aback when instead of things speeding
up, things started slowing down more :-)

>  As a gentoo user myself, I would *NOT* recommend gentoo as the cure for
>  your problem...

> 1) Gentoo is source-based, you will be compiling kernels and everything
> else you update.  If you dislike doing an occasional kernel rebuild,
> forget gentoo.  There's recompiling of various applications and
> libraries each update (say approx every 2 weeks).

I have no issues compiling kernels or other sources, just do not want
compiling to take half a day :-)

> 2) A gentoo-optimized machine will be somewhat faster, but your machine
> has no business running blender.  I had an Intel Core 2 with onboard
> Intel GPU, and it had problems keeping up with NHL Gamecentre Live on
> the slowest stream.  Sorry, you need a newer more powerful machine...
> period... end of story.

I can't afford an upgrade right now, so am stuck with what I have. And
agreed fully i had no business running blender on this hardware but  I am a
firm believer that necessity is the mother of invention. Quite by accident
I found that setting the resolution percentage to 50% will render the scene *4
times faster*!

And you try explaining to a little child why their greeting card is not
ready as promised in 3d with all the bells n whistles ? Ever have a female
give you dat why don't you drop dead like yesterday look ( the kids elder
sister and my very good friend who said don make promises you cant keep
Aruna. I made damn sure I kept this one! This is why am here and alive
right now :)))

Am a sucker for kids, so shoot me :-) worth the hassle and time to see
their faces light up with absolute glee...

> 1) gnome (even the classic version) is a resource hog.  Can you switch
> to a "mere" window manager like ICEWM?  Doing that should provide a bit
> of a performance boost.

Yes there is a lot of bloat in any Ubuntu distro I guess because it is
designed to work out of the box but we dont need all the drivers, this is
why I was trying to compile and roll my own kernel. I will have a look at
ICEWM thank's.

> kill -15 <PID>

Am running compiz that may be hogging resources too, will try the PID and
kill thank's

>
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> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
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