Message: 5
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 20:57:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Hunter Peress <hfastjava(a)yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Kernel config
To: wikitech-l(a)wikipedia.org
Reply-To: wikitech-l(a)wikipedia.org
reducing these options will maybe shave a couple hundred k of the size of the kernel
image.
triming down a kernel does not make it faster, it might save you 4 microseconds at boot
time...
There is *NO* good reason to recompile kernels unless you have to.
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Basically you are right, all except loadable module support are not
really worth the hassle.
But I think, if you want to secure things, you sould really disable
loadable module support. Most root-kits need this to work. If you can
somehow disable it, the chance of a permanent security breach are pretty
slim.
And for that to work you need to shave of those couple of 100 k's to get
all in one nice kernel package.
It all depends on how paranoid you are (or how you trust your backups
:-)
Cheers
Leo