Zen kernel on Fedora 31 part 3

Tonight I booted back into normal kernel and immediately noticed the "lack of snappiness".  I wish I had a way of measuring this... because to the human eye it is actually very obvious that the Zen kernel I built and use is much more responsive (or at least gives you the impression it is) than the standard kernel.

It is probably because the standard kernel is geared toward more generic use, which could include server use... while the zen kernel is geared toward a desktop/single-user system.

Whatever the case may be, the difference is very obvious.

On a less favorable note, I don't know what happens whenever I update Fedora, but it seems to corrupt my grub boot process.  It happened today and I was certain I would have to rebuild, but I booted into Pop!_OS off of my thumb drive and it seemed to fix the problem, somehow.  When I then rebooted, grub did not fail and I was able to select my custom kernel and boot.  It is very strange.

Zen kernel on Fedora 31 part 2

Since building my zen/muqss kernel and running on my Fedora 31 build I have noticed a couple of interesting things.

1. Memory usage seems to be lower in general, however it no longer caches as much in RAM.

2. CPU usage seems a little higher in general and most noticeable is the NVidia queue thread.  I had read that some people were seeing that, especially with composition pipeline enabled (I have comp-pipe enabled but not full force comp-pipe).  I do not remember seeing this at all prior to building the zen kernel.  So I find it interesting.  Supposedly if I uncheck the comp pipeline switches it will come down.  Not worried about it though.  Kworker threads seem a little more active as well.

It does seem a little snappier.  But since I did not run any kind of tests before hand that is heresay.

Anyway, I will write more if I have time....

Zen Kernel on Fedora 31

OK, I know this is geeky and ridiculous but... I DID IT!  :D   :D   :D

I downloaded the zen kernel sources, snagged the fedora config, and based on some instructions from 2011 was able to build my own ZEN KERNEL!

Sorry, I am just pumped by this.  I honestly didn't expect it to build, then I didn't expect it to work and, at first, it did not because it did not automatically generate an initrd image.  Read how to do that, built my own and BOOM.  Here it is.  I am pretty sure I overbuilt it and it is large, takes longer to load.  But it DOES and it is even working with my Nvidia driver.

Seriously...  this is the best thing I have done in weeks.  Gives me a little bit of  geek pride when I thought all my geekiness had fled me.

Anyway, thanks for reading!