The Hermit Hacker writes:
> I don't ... I personally admin FreeBSD and Solaris boxen ... FreeBSD,
> first step is to always recompile the kernel after an install, to get rid
> of crud and add Shared Memory ... the Solaris boxes, you add a couple of
> lines to /etc/system and reboot, and you have Shared Memory ...
>
> I don't know about other 'commercial OSs', but I'd be shocked if a Linux
> admin never does any kernel config cleanup befor egoing production *shrug*
Linux allows you to load and unload kernel modules, while the system is
running, to add and remove stuff as you need it. But this is moot because
Linux also allows you to increase shared memory (up to the total
addressable memory) while the system is running. Recompiling Linux
kernels is a thing of the past with modern distributions.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/