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Subject: Re: Optimizationn questions?
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On Mar 15, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Jorn Argelo wrote:

> youshi10@u.washington.edu wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Danny Pansters wrote:
>>      I know that this has been discussed a few times before, but  
>> IMO running a slightly stripped down kernel (i.e. custom, not  
>> GENERIC) actually proves to be helpful in increasing boot times  
>> (if options were added statically) and compile times if [(# of  
>> options added) < (# of options in GENERIC)].

> I can confirm this too. I noticed on both desktop and servers the  
> boot time can be decreased by stripping the kernel configuration of  
> stuff you don't need. I don't have any hard facts to prove this but  
> this is what my personal experience is.

me, too.

-j