Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:47:32 +1300 From: "Juha Saarinen" <juhasaarinen@gmail.com> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advantages of trimmed kernel? Message-ID: <b34be8420612101747m4c0f8e57ifd8414ff14a47502@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200612110100.26229.fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> References: <200612100905.30430.kirk@strauser.com> <20061210155022.GA28750@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <457C4156.8010309@computer.org> <200612110100.26229.fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
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On 12/11/06, RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> wrote: > As I understand it the argument in favour of smaller kernels isn't that they > free-up memory for other uses, it's that they make better uses of memory > cache. > > OTOH big blocks of code that are rarely entered probably aren't going to > degrade performance much. Security through less code? Hmm, dunno. -- Juha http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha
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