kernel upgrade vs dist-upgrade

[Spiros Bolis]

On 11/14/2012 12:49 PM, ilias seperis wrote:

> Esto oti exoume ena sistima debian 5 kai theloume na to kanoume upgrade gia na paizei se kanena neo hardware.
> Pia lisi tha protimousate? kernel upgrade (download apo kernel.org kai compile) h' dist-upgrade?
> Emeis dokimasame tin proti lisi (gia pio grigora), epeje mia xara ektos apo kati benchmarks tou pgbench pou itan tragika (eos kai 2-3 fores pio argo).
 >
> Pragma to opoio mas bazei skepseis oti mipos telika den einai kai toso
> kali idea na kaneis upgrade mono ton kernel alla na paei paketo kai olo
> to userland h' oti kapoia mlkia kanoume emeis (dokimasame kai diafora
> tweaks se /proc h' options stous kernels mipos blepame beltiosi, alla tpt).
>
> Kamia idea sxetika?:)
>

Genika oi pyrhnes pane kapoies fores paketo me kapoia userland ergaleia 
(px. metabash udev/hotplug) alla mhpws to performance exei na kanei kai 
me diafora debian specific patches ? 
(http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOfficialDebianKernelPackage 
http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html 
http://myrddin.org/howto/debian-kernel-recompiling/)

Genika h protimwmenh lysh einai ola paketo gia polloys kai diaforoys 
logoys (endiaferon keimeno: http://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20120308/ )

Epishs: statherothta, epidoseis kai bleeding edge yposthri3h syskeywn 
spania pane mazi

telika to kyriws problhma poio einai?


y.g. pio grhgoro to compilation apo thn egkatastash paketwn? Poly kalh 
CPU se poly-poly argo diktyo? ;-)