From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 22:09:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D398C1065687 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 22:09:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@smartt.com) Received: from barium.smartt.com (barium.smartt.com [69.67.187.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B690C8FC15 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 22:09:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@smartt.com) Received: from [69.31.174.220] (unknown [69.31.174.220]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by barium.smartt.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5679DAC841; Mon, 26 May 2008 15:09:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <483B351C.2070906@smartt.com> Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 15:09:32 -0700 From: Chris St Denis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jos Chrispijn References: <483ADEA1.40206@webrz.net> <483AE57B.2000106@magichamster.com> <483AEB21.4070100@webrz.net> <483AF28F.1080102@magichamster.com> <18490.64855.333616.875277@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <483B009E.5000808@next.online.no> <483B04A2.1050909@webrz.net> In-Reply-To: <483B04A2.1050909@webrz.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel for Dual Core X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 22:09:25 -0000 Jos Chrispijn wrote: > Tore Lund wrote: >> Right, anecdotally. I seem to recall there was a real speed gain under >> version 4.x. When I tried to trim my kernel in one of the 6.x releases, >> however, there was barely any differenc. >> > I have a hard disk bay in my server. Due to the fact that BSD is very > flexible, in case of hardware failure other than hard disk, you can > remove the hard drive and put it in any other server and with GENERIC > you just power on and it will allways work. When you use a system > tuned version, that might be not the case as some removed periphirals > are deleted from the Kernel. Is this, in combination with the speedy > processors nowadays, a reason to use GENERIC though? > Is Kernel finetuning not for older hardware (P2 and P3 related)? > > Jos > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Although this can be useful, it's still generally reasonably safe to comment out a lot of stuff. For example, a server doesn't typically need mp3 player support, and most ISA stuff can probably go unless you are working with very old hardware, and a server probably doesn't need pccard support. The more obscure NICs can probably go too. -- Chris St Denis Programmer SmarttNet (www.smartt.com) Ph: 604-473-9700 Ext. 200 ------------------------------------------- "Smart Internet Solutions For Businesses"