From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 21 09:18:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 333D916A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:18:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sifycorp.com (smtp.sifycorp.com [202.144.77.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DE6043D39 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:18:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ananth_g@sifycorp.com) Received: (sifymail 26499 invoked from 10.1.8.85 by host sifycorpmail by uid 508); 21 Apr 2005 14:48:05 +0530 Received: from 10.1.8.85 (HELO sifycorp.com) (10.1.8.85) by 10.1.8.85 with SMTP; 21 Apr 2005 14:48:05 +0530 Received: (sifymail 26490 invoked from 10.1.5.3 by host sifycorpmail by uid 99); 21 Apr 2005 14:48:05 +0530 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1114075085.42676fcdbae50@mail.sifycorp.com> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:48:05 +0500 (IST) From: ananth_g@sifycorp.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: building good custom kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:18:09 -0000 hi , i tried building the freebsd 5.3 kernel and it works fine, but can u people give me some tips regarding optimizing kernel during build, even saving a single cpu cycle would mean a lot. i would like to have a kernel that is really optimized. And what do you people do to fine tune the kernel? thanks, ananth.g