[gentoo-dev] Kernel patching recommendations

[Mike Savage <Mike.Savage@datastream.net>]

Good day,
I am in the process of setting up and configuring several Linux boxes to
perform as application servers (apache/jboss/tomcat/etc).  I am trying to
put together the best kernel I can.  While I haven't gotten a chance to
install Gentoo yet, I do follow everything that is going on in the Gentoo
world, as well as reading all of the insightful article on IBM Dev Works.
My question is this: Can you give me any recommendations on patches that I
would need to include for a server system while leaving out all of the
premptible kernel patches (ie, Robert Love, mjc).  I would like to
incorporate all of the security enhancements and the filesystem read latency
fixes (and more) that you have included in your linux-gentoo-2.4.18-pre3
patch, while leaving out the preempt stuff.  Is that possible?
Also, I see that there is now an mjc tree for the best preempt kernel
available.  Is there a similar tree that is compiling patches for server
oriented systems?

Thanks for your time...hopefully I can join the Gentoo movement in the next
couple of weeks, after I deploy these new boxes to production.

Mike

J. Michael Savage
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