From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 22 06:38:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA01910 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 06:38:03 -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 GAA01841 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 06:38:00 -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 PAA23019; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 15:37:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (dag-erli@localhost) by skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 13:37:03 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: <199808220623.GAA17475@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 13:37:00 +0000 In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Sat, 22 Aug 1998 06:23:43 +0000" Message-ID: Lines: 15 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 GAA01901 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) > You should qualify "slower" here. I would suggest "marginally" as > a good candidate. Not at all. Try loading lkms on a box with a kernel about half the size of your RAM. Been there, done that. 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