From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 21 09:16:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77CD116A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:16:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sifycorp.com (smtp.sifycorp.com [202.144.77.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32A2A43D62 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:15:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ananth_g@sifycorp.com) Received: (sifymail 22822 invoked from 10.1.8.85 by host sifycorpmail by uid 508); 21 Apr 2005 14:45:55 +0530 Received: from 10.1.8.85 (HELO sifycorp.com) (10.1.8.85) by 10.1.8.85 with SMTP; 21 Apr 2005 14:45:55 +0530 Received: (sifymail 22799 invoked from 10.1.5.3 by host sifycorpmail by uid 99); 21 Apr 2005 14:45:55 +0530 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1114074955.42676f4bbc684@mail.sifycorp.com> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:45:55 +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-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:16:00 -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