Steve Wolfe schrieb:
>
> > > RPM kernel upgrades have always worked fine for me, just do an
> "rpm -i"
> > > (as opposed to -U, so you keep your old kernel around for good
> measure),
> > > then set up lilo to point to the new kernel image.
>
> At the risk of starting a flame-war, I avoid RedHat's "standard" kernels
> like the plague, as my network throughput is significantly slower. My
> compiling a kernel with exactly what I need, I get a much higher
> throughput - along the order of several megabytes per second. With
> everything that they enable in their kernels, I imagine that other aspects
> would also suffer. Whether that extra bit of performance is necessary
> depends, of course, on your situation. YMMV.
>
> steve
I like the RH kernels, because of all the features they include. And I
never got bad network throughput with them. Do you have Gigabit Ethernet
where you have slow throughput? I have lots of servers here with all
kind
of different NIC's and I have never had a speed problem on the network.
The only problem I remember was when sombody changed the switch config
from autosensing/autoselect to fixed 100mb/FD. This has just killed
throughput on several NIC's.
Simon
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