"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
news:493d9f82@news.povray.org...
>  I really can't understand why some people seem to be constantly compiling
> the linux kernel.

Well if you're talking Linux I've not gen'ed a new kernel ever .... now Unix 
that's a different story. The company I worked at had a very large installed 
base. We settled on a desktop kernel and a server kernel. Some db products, 
Oracle and Informix, required some kernel params to be bumped up. It's been 
a while but I remember nproc, nfiles and a couple other params that needed 
tuning. So I'd add that it's fairly common in Unix world, and from reading 
this thread it would seem less common on Linux.

Jim

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