Turing Uncomplete

This little tutorial is to teach you how easy it is to compile a kernel, however I should warn you that I’ve only tested this on Arch Linux and no other distributions, so things may be slightly different. This is something people frequently fail at, so you can obviously never have too much documentation on [...]

I decided to compile my own kernel the day before yesterday, to try and speed things up a bit. Most people say that the speed gain is negligable, and that the RAM usage is the only thing that will be noticeably different. So, off I went to compile a kernel! I followed this excellent guide, [...]

Last night, I decided to recompile community, AUR, and unstable. It all seemed to go very well until I rebuilt my initramfs image to test my new splashy theme (splashy was one of the recompiled packages). I rebooted my computer and… Nothing. GRUB appeared, tried to load the kernel, and the screen went black. I [...]

Last night I installed a kernel update and, well, performance has not been optimal, let’s just put it like that. I have had quite a few program crashes, and the computer seems to be using a bit more RAM. Also, the upgrade broke my installation of the opensource ATI driver - I have had to [...]

I decided to have a little fiddle around with the swappiness level of my kernel today, and am happy to report my results.
For those of you don’t know, swappiness is a number between 0 and 100 (inclusive) which controls how much stuff is stored in RAM. At a swappiness of 0, everything is stored in [...]