From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 22 05:54:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA27052 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 05:54:56 -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 FAA27047 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 05:54:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no (skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.2]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with SMTP id OAA20966; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 14:53:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (dag-erli@localhost) by skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 12:53:49 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , "Daniel O'Connor" , "Jeff W." , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD takes 8 years to boot up References: <199808211706.RAA10911@dingo.cdrom.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: 22 Aug 1998 12:53:43 +0000 In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:06:25 +0000" Message-ID: Lines: 11 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 FAA27048 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith writes: > You can also just 'disable' them in userconfig. This prevents them > being probed, but leaves them there for when you need them. They still take up memory and make the kernel slower to load and link (one consequence of which is that modload is very slow, especially on boxes with little memory) 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