From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 15:42:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07AB216A412 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:42:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FA4243C9F for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:40:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB75D2059D2 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:41:58 -0600 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at honeypot.net Received: from kanga.honeypot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kanga.honeypot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id f57tMqNCvTkc for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:41:55 -0600 (CST) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f01:224:1::2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6348D205873 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:41:55 -0600 (CST) From: Kirk Strauser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:41:52 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <200612100905.30430.kirk@strauser.com> <200612100919.59564.lane@joeandlane.com> In-Reply-To: <200612100919.59564.lane@joeandlane.com> X-Face: &'; cS03F?rr_w2Qce.d2f7xmwXfcJWDs>}CkpDw.c]ZJJ_)i0Nx Subject: Re: Advantages of trimmed kernel? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:42:00 -0000 --nextPart1275689.KVHPcnRoGT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 10 December 2006 09:19, Lane wrote: > You say that you can't afford to take a production machine down, but > consider this: What if you trimmed all of the "fat" from the kernel on a > server, and then the server's nic goes bad. Well, that's an example of the kind of thing that makes me not want to hack= =20 GENERIC too much. Also, accidentally removing some critical driver is=20 another drawback. So, with all the disadvantages, are there any real=20 advantages to doing this? Saving half a meg of memory on a four gig machin= e=20 isn't worth the aggravation. Squeezing an extra 10% performance out of the= =20 same hardware would be, though. =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --nextPart1275689.KVHPcnRoGT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFfCrB5sRg+Y0CpvERAnUDAKCEnMA3/L0BW2w+rozkfeV58x/7eACeNeSe Ynl194RGiWaWxpWQ0tD6s0U= =s3SZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1275689.KVHPcnRoGT--