Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 16:50:22 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advantages of trimmed kernel? Message-ID: <20061210155022.GA28750@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <200612100905.30430.kirk@strauser.com> References: <200612100905.30430.kirk@strauser.com>
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On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:05:25AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > Are there any real advantages to building a kernel stripped of unused drivers, > especially when running it on a fairly large machine? For years, I've been > dutifully removing device drivers (or more recently, including GENERIC and > using 'nodevice') for everything I don't have. But does this actually do > anything useful, or am I just tilting at windmills? It will save a little bit of memory and diskspace and the machine will probably boot slightly faster since it will not need to probe for non-existing devices, but other than that I doubt it will make any difference at all. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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