Advantages of trimmed kernel?

[Kirk Strauser]

On Sunday 10 December 2006 09:19, Lane wrote:

> You say that you can't afford to take a production machine down, but
> consider this:  What if you trimmed all of the "fat" from the kernel on a
> server, and then the server's nic goes bad.

Well, that's an example of the kind of thing that makes me not want to hack 
GENERIC too much.  Also, accidentally removing some critical driver is 
another drawback.  So, with all the disadvantages, are there any real 
advantages to doing this?  Saving half a meg of memory on a four gig machine 
isn't worth the aggravation.  Squeezing an extra 10% performance out of the 
same hardware would be, though.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
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