>>> "Josh" == Josh McCaffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Josh> Seth Gibson wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Josh McCaffrey wrote: > desired results.
>> There has never been any intention to make Linux perform > well
>> for everybody straight out of the box. Tho i think we are
>> seeing that change more and more with Things like lizard and
>> such. . .me personally, when i installed mdk the first time it
>> worked great. . .of course alot of my hardware is so old,
>> linux was probably very happy with my machine(:-D
Josh> Yeah, me, too! If I did have W98 on my box, I'm sure I
Josh> would see a real drag in performance. I have not built a
Josh> new kernel yet due to time constraints, and the fact that
Josh> L-M 6.1 has performed very nicely for me out of the box.
Josh> I'm sure that when I do trim down the stock kernel that I
Josh> could free up some memory. On that note, I started
Josh> recompiling the kernel a couple of times, and each time it
Josh> failed (I forget why) after choosing to save the new kernel,
Josh> so in /usr/src there are "linux-2.2.13" and
Josh> "linux-2.2.13.old" folders, and the 2 files generated by
Josh> make menuconfig (one is .old) So should I delete these extra
Josh> files and start again from the beginning? Thanks! -Josh
What kernel are you running now (output of 'uname -r')?
On tuneup generally, try
http://www.portico.org/categories/
http://linuxperf.nl.linux.org/
http://www.linux.com/tuneup/
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