From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 21 17:09:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18570 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:09:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (ppp-d3.dialup.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18541 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:09:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA10911; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:06:26 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199808211706.RAA10911@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , "Daniel O'Connor" , "Jeff W." , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD takes 8 years to boot up In-reply-to: Your message of "21 Aug 1998 17:56:28 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:06:25 +0000 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id RAA18558 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. You can also just 'disable' them in userconfig. This prevents them being probed, but leaves them there for when you need them. The userconfig changes are saved back into the kernel by 'dset' out of / etc/rc, so you only need to do this once. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message