From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 19:02:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 2D61916A41F for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:02:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@mypost.se) Received: from smtp-one-2.wash.one.se (smtp-one-2.one.se [213.80.101.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B6543D68 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:02:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@mypost.se) Received: from localhost (smtp-one-2.local [127.0.0.1]) by re-injector2.wash.one.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A5566C8C7 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:02:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp-one-2.wash.one.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp-one-2.wash.one.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23154-01 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:02:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from 81-170-153-180.bahnhofbredband.net (81-170-153-180.bahnhofbredband.net [81.170.153.180]) by smtp-one-2.wash.one.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55B5D66CA98 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:02:08 +0100 (CET) From: Mark Rowlands To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:02:06 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20051109220901.GA22021@dementia.beyondnormal.net> In-Reply-To: <20051109220901.GA22021@dementia.beyondnormal.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511102002.07293.mark.rowlands@mypost.se> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at one.se (smtp-one-2) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.351 tagged_above=-999 required=7 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL X-Spam-Level: Subject: Re: Good idea or Bad idea? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mark.rowlands@mypost.se List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:02:20 -0000 On Wednesday 09 November 2005 23:09, Mike Hernandez wrote: ... > I have no trouble following docs, so I'm not really worried about blowing > everything up in the process (even though I might haha...) I'm just > wondering if there are any real (noticeable) performance increases if I > build my kernel and base system from source. Of course either way my ports > will be compiled. There are definitely security benefits from stripping unwanted services from your system and I rather like to know that my system (and ports) are up to date with the latest patches which occasionally requires that you rebuild everything. I would imagine that there is some very minor perfomance benefit in that my new kernel and all its bits and pieces is 22mb smaller than the default shipped in RELENG_6 18M ./kernel 42M ./kernel.old