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Date:      Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:06:05 -0500
From:      Andrew Gould <AndrewGould@shannonhealth.org>
To:        "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Kernel compiling questions
Message-ID:  <206499C84775D3119A000000F879310E011276C3@ISTECH4>

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Hi all,

I'm considering recompiling the kernel in a FreeBSD 4.0 system; and I have a
few question:

1.  My system has an Athlon 700Mhz chip, 384Mb RAM, 1Gb swap and no pcmcia
devices.  I will be running a database server using MySQL.  If I just want
to specify the cpu type and remove pcmcia support, will the improved
performance be worth the effort?  (I want to keep scsi support for future
flexibility.)

2.  Was the kernel that is initially installed with FreeBSD 4.0 configured
using the GENERIC configuration file?  In other words, if I recompile using
a copy of GENERIC without adding options/devices, will I lose support for
things I didn't comment out?

Thanks,

Andrew


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