From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 22 06:53:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA03679 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 06:53:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (ppp-dc.dialup.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA03672 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 06:53:17 -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 GAA17660; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 06:50:37 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199808220650.GAA17660@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: Mike Smith , 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 "22 Aug 1998 13:37:00 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 06:50:36 +0000 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id GAA03673 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. FreeBSD doesn't run in 2M anymore. -- \\ 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