Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:

> 
> and a question mark at the and of this sentence.
> (sorry for the typos) 
> 
>> What are your concerns?
> 
> My concerns were if SL x runs optimally on a pair of these quad core
> processors or whether some tweaking would be required. And as someone
> already said, the kernel should be adapted. 

Harold said he builds his own, and that it can be optimised for your 
processor.

I'd want to see performance figures before I accepted that doing that is 
actually beneficial.

By doing that, you lose Red Hat's support of your kernel, you don't get 
its security updates, you don't any extra features Red Hat adds and you 
don't get the benefits of Red Hat's QA.[1]

Using kernels from kernel.org is a bit like using Fedora, there are 
times it's appropriate, but not if you want the system to come up first 
time, every time, and to stay up all the time, every time.


[1] It's true that in using a RHEL clone, those benefits are diluted 
somewhat, but the source code our vendors get from RH is what RH used to 
build its packages. We still benefit from RH's work.


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John

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