From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 13 16:23:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA581065675 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:23:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9043E8FC22 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:23:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (home-nat.elischer.org [67.100.89.137]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p5DGN8bp056444 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:23:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4DF63972.8070006@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:23:14 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Braniss References: <4DF3E98B.40108@FreeBSD.org> <20110612085649.GA11503@DataIX.net> <4DF50AA1.9080607@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jhell@DataIX.net, Doug Barton , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.d script to load kernel modules X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:23:41 -0000 On 6/12/11 11:20 PM, Daniel Braniss wrote: >> On 6/12/2011 1:56 AM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: >> >>> Cutting modules out of the kernel in general does help speed up booting >>> but loading those same modules later in the boot process will just lead >>> you back to the same boot time. >> Loading modules via loader.conf is many times slower than doing it from >> disk after the system is partially booted. (As in, 2-3 seconds per >> module vs. nearly instantaneous for all 6.) >> >> I didn't offer my list as an example of what to do, I offered it as a >> syntax example. I would of course expect people to use appropriate >> discretion to load things in loader.conf that are necessary for boot. >> (Of course, the fact that people can easily get this wrong is a strike >> against the technique.) >> >> There is no point in having an _enable for this script because if the >> kld_list is empty, nothing happens. >> > Doug's solution is what we have been using for a very long time! > > the loader.conf solution is not practical when it's shared among many > hosts -like here where most of the hosts are dataless-, so, moving the not > essential ones to rc.conf was the obvious solution. what would be REALLY cool would be the ability to make loader.conf have some sort of conditional clauses.. e.g. if MAC== 01:02:03:04:05:06 blah > my .5 > > danny > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >