Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.tcpreset.net!newsgate.tebibyte.org!.POSTED.251.red-79-150-114.dynamicip.rima-tde.net!Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The Stupidification Of systemd Haters Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 18:55:48 +0200 Organization: Tebibyte_Retro_Gaming Message-ID: References: <18ae97fc33e48f9d$12583$2923323$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <10ttm9k$1g1he$6@dont-email.me> <10tvbbj$1vrb3$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mailgate.tebibyte.org; posting-host="251.red-79-150-114.dynamicip.rima-tde.net:79.150.114.251"; logging-data="23372"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@tebibyte.org" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <10tvbbj$1vrb3$1@dont-email.me> X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86517 On 2026-05-12 15:52, Rich wrote: > c186282 wrote: >> On 5/11/26 18:47, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >>> On Mon, 11 May 2026 20:12:03 +0100, Andy Burns wrote: > > I used to build my own kernels, but this was back in the days of > systems with 512MB of total RAM and i586 class CPU's running at > 150-200Mhz. Back in those days it /felt/ like there was a speedup by > building the kernel against the specific CPU one had in one's box, and > with the 512MB RAM days, there *was* a benefit of stripping out drivers > that one did not use, as a smaller kernel left more RAM available for > one's applications. Me too, but the distros making everything modules also saved the same RAM and was less work for users. Maybe the startup was a bit slower :-? > > But somewhere along the path from i586 class CPU's to i3/i5/i7 class > CPU's, and 512MB ram to 24G RAM it became a case where the performance > increase from "build with CPU optimizations for a speific CPU" and > "Kernel is smaller" was no longer noticable. The standard kernel > Slackware built felt just as fast as the custom built kernel, and the > difference in memory usage was a tiny sliver of the total, so it wasn't > worth it to continue. So somewhere around the "Pentium 3" to Core era > I quit compiling custom kernels for myself as I no longer felt like I > could detect the benefits from doing so. Right. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;