Re: Fedora 16 Cgroups
"Richard W.M. Jones" <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:21:25PM +0100, Nix wrote: > On 27 Apr 2012, Richard W. M. Jones said: > > Yes and no. As with SELinux you're paying a (very small) penalty just > > by having them compiled into the kernel, so you'd also have to compile > > your own kernel. The time taken to compile and deal with a custom > > kernel outweighs any possible savings. > > Is it really that hard with a modern distro? I've built my own kernels > for fifteen years now, but then I don't use Fedora so I can't say if > it's harder to get a working kernel on there than on other systems. > (Yes, you need a working initial ramdisk, but dracut can build those > without much effort, even if you have your own kernel, and > /sbin/installkernel does that, doesn't it? So 'make install' from the > kernel source tree should just do the right thing.) I didn't say it was hard, I said the time spent compiling the kernel and manually updating it would outweigh the miniscule savings from not having the overhead of cgroups :-) Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat -- Gllug mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug