On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:15:30PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > and ordinary user will find FreeBSD is slower, could we let user to > > select which kernel to install at installing time? > > It's a possibility that I've considered, given that sysinstall > had a hard time supporting installing FreeBSD from a single CDROM > image to support both developers and the end product with a single > "golden" system image. > > The problem with doing this is that it sort of grates against the > idea of a "GENERIC" entirely.
GENERIC is just fine the way it is. I have always considered it a way to get everything installed and a nice saftey net. The issue is not that GENERIC performs poorly, the issue is that the kernel that remains on the box performs poorly. I've been considering this issue for a quite some time. There needs to be an >automatic< way to help the new user get a better kernel on his box. Matt Dillon provided a man page, now what's needed is a program (call it autotune) that looks at the machine and, possibly after asking the user some questions about proposed machine use, builds OPTIMIZED and generates changes for system files (e.g. adding softupdates to /etc/fstab). A scaled back version of autotune would also run daily out of cron to check system resources (e.g. mbuf utilization), parse syslogs and suggest a kernel reconfig/rebuild as needed. Given a working, easy to update skeleton program, I suspect that convincing the person who most understands a given subsystem to write optimization rules would not be difficult. /\/\ \/\/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
