Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:08:26 +0100 (BST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: Linux Tuning. |
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Hello,
Why don't we do this:
1. Add a kernel config section called "Kernel Tuning" nicely grouped into categories (with a huge "Misc" one) and very detailed "Help" section explaining each parameter, contraints, dependencies on other parameters etc. (dependencies shouldn't be automatic because it will probably never work and only confuse normal humans).
2. The above will just provide initial defaults. But if people start playing with them (filling in values in make xconfig is more attractive to some compared to knowing all the kernel sources by heart and editing appropriate files), they will start understanding what is what and know where and what they should echo > /proc/sys/* even at runtime.
3. Those without any clues will just accept all the defaults and feel no pain.
Of course, this approach can easily produce kernels which won't even boot but I always wanted a new errno=ETOUGHINIT defined anyway... ;)
Just my 0.02 GBP worth.
Regards, Tigran.
PS. I had this idea when I noticed that precious 256 bytes are wasted for modprobe path and wanted to make it tunable...
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