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Re: [PLUG] Kernel 2.2.x Question.
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Hi Dave,
I've seen a lot of stuff like this happen when everything has been compiled as a
module and either the kernel module loader or kernld is so busy loading and
unloading modules causing a huge amount of disk activity.
Personally, Ilike configuring the kernel to have all of the hardware that is on
the system compiled directly into the kernel, ie ehternet card, scsi card, sound
and etc. Also I noticed that the dist kernels have modules for everything piece
of hardware under the sun compiled into them.
Have a great day :-)
fourje wrote:
>
> Okay,
> I've used Linux since 2.0.0, never had any problems with the kernel
> (using or compiling).
> Now I'm using vs 2.2.6. I've used the version in Corel (debian);
> Slackware 4.0; Rhat and Caldera OpenLinux. I have noticed some very
> peculiar (well to me anyway).
>
> 1) My machine sits there very happily doing nothing just a user logged
> in. Every so-often (less than 2 mins), there is a burst of activity
> against my disk drive. I've had top running in another VC and never
> being able to catch a process doing anything, so I reckon this is kernel
> internals.
>
> 2) Believing that I may need to recompile the kernel to remove things
> like RAID, IPX, etc. I started to recompile the kernel. A task I have
> done dozens - maybe hundreds of times over the last 4 years. With this
> new kernel I constantly end up with zImage size errors and the compile
> stops right at the end. I can complete the task by specifying "make
> bzImage". Is the kernel now so big that it has to be compressed. Maybe
> that's why all of the latest distro versions are completely modular.
>
> Just a few gripes - that's all - I did notice, however that OpenLinux
> (not sure about Rhat) does not suffer so badly with the spurious disk
> accesses as the other distro's.
> Dave E.
>
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