On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:57:47AM -0500, Andrew Dahl wrote: > A lot of the extra features in the kernel are there to allow for easier > debugging when doing kernel development. They typically add extra load to > deal with and slow down the system, overall. (It's minimal, but it's still > a performance hit). > > In the two you listed, Kprobes is just such a feature. It helps with > debugging, so if you're a user who isn't doing kernel development, you > don't need it and probably wouldn't know what it was. > cgroups... I don't > know that there's any benefit to having cgroups unless you know how to use > them. On their own, I believe their only use is if you have applications > that hook into them to limit resource usage. So, I imagine if you don't > know what cgroups are, you really don't need them. (And, again, they > include a tiny performance hit) systemd uses cgroups so they are a required feature for Fedora 17+, recent Suse and probably Debian. florin -- Sent from my other microwave oven. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130320/d39b4c15/attachment.pgp>