That makes sense. I start the postmaster with -B set to 1000. I'm currently using mandrake 7.0 or redhat 6.0 depending on which half I dual-boot to, and if I remember correctly I had to rebuild the kernel for both redhat 6 and mandrake 7. I think mandrake 7 is basically redhat 6.1, but it seems that they compile their own kernel. I've compiled kernels several times without really knowing anything about how to do it. It seems that if you follow the documentation and use the defaults when you don't know what option to choose, everything turns out o.k.
