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distro kernels are made to work for everyone, and be efficient for nobody

distro kernels are made to work for everyone, and be efficient for nobody

Posted Oct 21, 2010 18:23 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
Parent article: IMA memory hog

people need to realize that the distros build their kernels so that no matter what feature someone tries to use, the kernel will support it.

this frequently comes at a cost in startup time, runtime performance, or memory overhead. It's seldom this blatent an issue, but it's very common.


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