From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 26 17:40:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA04694 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 17:40:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA04689 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 17:40:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA13582; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 17:35:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd013580; Mon Oct 27 01:35:44 1997 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 17:34:07 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Kwoody cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk if you have 8MB or maybe even 16MB it probably will be faster due to having the extra RAM to play with.. there may also be some modules that you have left out that slowed things down.. but that's not usualy very noticable. congrats! On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Kwoody wrote: > > > Made my own kernel and it works! Just a quick question though, now that > I have a kernel specific for my machine it seems as though things are > running a tad quicker. Could this be possible now with way less stuff in > the kernel? It is 400k smaller. It was 1.2 meg now its a wee bit over 800k. > > I know the reboot took way less time than it used to now that it only searches > for a few things. Even the probe for my HD's only takes 3 or 4 seconds > now and it used to be at least 10 seconds. > > Thanks! > Keith. > > > > >