From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 6:58:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cambridge1-smrly2.gtei.net (cambridge1-smrly2.gtei.net [199.94.215.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B81937BA23 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 06:58:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from AndrewGould@shannonhealth.org) Received: from istech4.shannonhealth.org (istech4.shannonhealth.org [4.18.79.4]) by cambridge1-smrly2.gtei.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5389A1DBD2 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:58:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by ISTECH4 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:06:06 -0500 Message-ID: <206499C84775D3119A000000F879310E011276C3@ISTECH4> From: Andrew Gould To: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Kernel compiling questions Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:06:05 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message