From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 21 08:57:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24472 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 08:57:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24464 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 08:57:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no (2602@grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.131]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id RAA04575; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:56:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:56:28 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , "Jeff W." , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD takes 8 years to boot up References: <199808211337.GAA08894@cwsys.cwsent.com> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 21 Aug 1998 17:56:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group's message of "Fri, 21 Aug 1998 06:36:44 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA24466 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group writes: > It also may be a good idea to remove other unused devices from the > kernel as well. The disadvantage to this is that every time you change > your configuration you will need to rebuild the kernel. Hopefully that > won't be that often. Recompiling the kernel on anything above P150 is a matter of a couple of minutes at most if you use the '-n' option to config (but remember to always make depend!) The advantages are quicker booting and a smaller memory footprint. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message