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I need to recompile my kernel on RHEL WS5 with only two changes.

  1. Change stack size from 4k to 8k
  2. Limit usable memory to 4096.

How do I recompile the kernel without changing anything else but these two items?

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To change only the new values you will need the config the old kernel was build from.

In RHEL you can find this in: /boot/config-$(\uname -r)

Copy this file to the kernel source and change the values you want. Use make menuconfig for a ncurses gui.

For other distributions: If the config option CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC was set, your kernel configuration is available under /proc/config.gz

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I took the liberty of converting it to $(command). If for any reason it is not equivalent please rollback (and in such case I'm really sorry). – Maciej Piechotka Sep 29 '10 at 16:36
For future reference, you can just use \` to escape them – Michael Mrozek♦ Sep 29 '10 at 16:51
thx Maciej, its the same. – echox Sep 29 '10 at 17:27
@Michael: yeah, but ` wont work if you try to nest the tics bar \`foo\` baror other variants. – echox Sep 29 '10 at 17:28
Strange, it works in comments but not in posts – Michael Mrozek♦ Sep 29 '10 at 18:34
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I'm no expert for RHEL WS5 but for Cent OS 5, which is basically RHEL with all references to Redhat removed, there is a nice tutorial at centos.org which explains how to build a modified version of the distribution kernel. The procedure explained there will probably work for RHEL WS, too.

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I believe the "change kernel stack size" option is long gone...

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