Do you care enough about better performance to recompile your Linux kernel? What are regular LTS, realtime, or low latency kernel?

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 16:53:56 -0400

https://www.linux.com/learn/recompile-your-kernel-perfect-fit

 Most distributions provide a "one-size-fits-all" kernel, compiled with the most generic options, so everybody can use it. If you have an Athlon XP CPU instead of an Intel 386 family processor, or lots of RAM, or a certain graphics card, you can tweak the kernel and compile it for optimum performance on your specific hardware. In the process, you can also probably free some memory by getting rid of unneeded options, shorten boot time, and...

Response by CPT Enrique M. made Apr 13 at 2016 7:03 PM

CPT Enrique M. — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 19:03:37 -0400

I just noticed the article was written in 2007. A lot of new distro's like ubuntuu , or CentOS have a really streamlined kernels to start of with, if I remember it right, it will auto configure with known hardware configurations to optimize kernels as it installs in a fresh install. I think customizing a kernel helps in a lot of situations , but a bad kernel build can spell disaster. Thus why not that many fiddle with optimizing kernels to get and edge, especially now that hardware is so much better too