[malwrar]

I totally missed that part of your comment, my bad. Thanks for elaborating on those, I feel inspired to experiment!

So far my kernel journey has been about making my hardware work + enabling features, and that’s mostly how I’ve been discovering config options. Do you have any suggestions on where one aught to read further on this sort of kernel tuning?

EDIT: doing some further research, couldn’t you just set those options via sysctl w/o needing to build a separate kernel?

[jorvi]

Yes you can adjust them via sysctl or directly as kernel parameter arguments. That isn't my point. My point is that Linux has some horrible defaults :+)

[malwrar]

Makes sense! Thanks for turning me on to them, I hadn’t come across those yet in my journey.