Kernel Tricks 
susegeek.com —
openSUSE and SUSE Linux sets default values for some of the network related Kernel parameters. With Kernel 2.6 (default in recent releases of openSUSE & SuSE Linux), there are some fine tuning you can do to improve Network performance and get that extra out of your system.
Posted by 
susegeek about 1 month ago
Posted by susegeek about 1 month ago 
susegeek.com —
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure. KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions Intel VT (vmx) or AMD-V (svm). KVM also requires a modified QEMU although work is underway to get the required changes upstream.
Posted by susegeek about 1 month ago
Posted by susegeek about 1 month ago 
susegeek.com —
The Linux Kernel offers you something that allows you to recover your system from a crash or at the least lets you to perform a proper shutdown using the Magic SysRq Keys. The magic SysRq key is a select key combination in the Linux kernel which allows the user to perform various low level commands regardless of the system’s state using the SysRq key. It is often used to recover from freezes, o...
Posted by susegeek about 1 month ago
Posted by susegeek about 1 month ago
susegeek.com —
The Linux Kernel offers you something that allows you to recover your system from a crash or at the least lets you to perform a proper shutdown using the Magic SysRq Keys. The magic SysRq key is a select key combination in the Linux kernel which allows the user to perform various low level commands regardless of the system’s state using the SysRq key. It is often used to recover from freezes, o...
Posted by susegeek about 1 month ago
Posted by susegeek about 1 month ago
HowFlow —
Quite a while ago, VMware Inc. released an OpenSource version of their VMware-Tools, called open-vm-tools.
While they're quite easy to install on Gentoo (emerge open-vm-tools), it's not that easy having them installed on a Debian Etch (4.0) if you want to go the proper way.
But if you follow just this steps, it won't be that hard...
Posted by 
eliasp 2 months ago
Posted by eliasp 2 months ago
HowFlow —
You can teach GRUB to boot an entry only at next boot time. Suppose that your have an old kernel old_kernel and a new kernel new_kernel. You know that old_kernel can boot your system correctly, and you want to test new_kernel.
Posted by 
lied 4 months ago
Posted by lied 4 months ago 
lesswatts.org —
PCI Express (PCIe) Active State Power Management (ASPM)
Posted by luchs 4 months ago
Posted by luchs 4 months ago
HowFlow —
The current official phc patches do not work with kernel 2.6.26. Here you can find a working patch file.
Posted by 
aroedl 4 months ago
Posted by aroedl 4 months ago
HowFlow —
If you upgrade your Linux kernel to version 2.6.25 and experience problems with your LVM volumes, try this trick.
Posted by flood 6 months ago
Posted by flood 6 months ago
HowFlow —
Sometimes you encounter a system where someone deleted the kernel sources and for some reason forgot to set CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y. This little trick shows how to extract the configuration from a Linux kernel image.
Posted by aroedl 6 months ago
Posted by aroedl 6 months ago 
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