hi every body...

i heard that by compling kernel ,one can make his system run faster.
so is there someone who can tell me from where to begin with.

i m using slackware 10.0.

regards

Hi
I used this tutorial to build my first kernel. Also search this forum for guides. I think there a couple of them...one is here

Tux,

http://www.bitbenderforums.com/vb22/...?postid=296104

you could also search for an article by "DrOzz" in this site about kernel compilation

regards

Yeah, but you could be wasting your time, too...

What you need to do first is to try to speculate why it is running slow now. For example, is DMA turned-on on your hard disk drives? Does the system have adequate memory? Are particular things running slowly; can you characterize what it seems to be doing when it is "running slowly?"

Yes, you can speed up a system somewhat by optimizing the kernel. But most things that "slow down" a computer are not caused by sluggish code-paths through the kernel; they are caused by I/O.

For instance, try these two commands and quote the results here. As root:
This will give you basic timings, and basic configuration parameters, on the I/O to your primary disk-drive ("/dev/hda"). There are plenty of articles on system optimization on the web, and you should start reading .. before you compile anything.

hi sundialsvcs
this is what i received ..

what is hdparm ??
i didn't find it in sbin directory!!

if you make it clear then only i can follow ur advice.

regards

hi sundialsvcs

i executed cmd from inside sbin directory..
this are the results..