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Running the latest kernel CentOS7

Posted on by jlim0930

I decided to start using the ML kernel for my kvm host for performance gains on my kvm guests. You can easily install the ML or the LT kernels easily on CentOS7 using the ELrepo. kernel-MT – mainline stable kernel kernel-LT – long term support kernel Steps: rpm –import https://www.elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org rpm -Uvh http://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-7.0-2.el7.elrepo.noarch.rpm yum remove kernel-headers kernel-tools kernel-tools-libs edit /etc/yum.repos.d/elrepo.repo and enable=1 the elrepo-kernel. change the ml to lt to install the long term support kernel. yum install kernel-ml.x86_64 kernel-ml-devel.x86_64 kernel-ml-headers.x86_64 kernel-ml-tools.x86_64 kernel-ml-tools-libs.x86_64 kernel-ml-tools-libs-devel.x86_64 time to get grub settled awk -F’ ‘$1==”menuentry ” {print $2}’ /etc/grub2.cfg it should list all… Continue Reading →

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cleaning old kernels the easy way

Posted on by jlim0930

There is a built in tool to remove old unused kernels thats installed onto the system. You can just as easily remove it and clean grub entries but this is an automated method and you can even set an option to keep x amounts. step 1 – install the yum utils package yum install yum-utils step 2 – run the package-cleanup to clean up old kernels package-cleanup –oldkernels –count=2 step 3 – if you want to set it so that you only keep X number of revisions on your system then edit /etc/yum.conf and add the following installonly_limit=2 enjoy!