On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 11:47 -0500, MK wrote:
ric moore brags:
ps. you are not BURNING a new kernel, you are COMPILING one. but call it "rolling" and you might be ok
heheheh, back when I would install the latest and greatest on my 486 DX2/66, rolling did not have the eclat of the word "burning" as it took forever, made my head hurt and my eyes burn from watching it. But, back when, the speed up was noticeable when I did that.
wow, thanks for this piece of etymology, i thot you waz just ignorant.
Ha! You thought right! I thought I knew some stuff, but it seems even those points bear scrutiny!
i do seem to remember watching text scRoll for hours, it seemed cool at the time and gave me some to eat noodles.
You had better luck that I as I would make some ignorant mistake, the kernel either didn't make right or didn't work at all, and then I'd edit my mistake and do it again. I usually got it right on the third, forth or fifth time. <huge grin> But, I stuck to it. I'm good at that.
What's got me into a kernel "compiling" mood is that playing a movie DVD and my system talking to the serial port to my stinkin' modem ain't cutting it. Damn, you would think an Athlon64-3200, running a 32bit OS with 2 gigs of memory could handle it. It happens whether I use Xine, VLC or any other player.
well ric i am running a P4 with 440 megs, downloading (thru a serial port), writing this in balsa, and ignoring "dodgeball" on xine plus a few other things and everything runs peachy with less than half the memory used and the CPU @ 30-70%. I almost always run root. I'd be pissed off if i couldn't customize the kernel, it may bear some responsibilities.
Is this when you play a DVD?? For whatever reason, it hogs the hell out of the system, but top doesn't show a huge anomaly. <swears again> I think a kernel rolling session is coming. Ric