Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 10:34:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD takes 8 years to boot up Message-ID: <XFMail.980822103431.vev@michvhf.com> In-Reply-To: <199808220650.GAA17660@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On 22-Aug-98 Mike Smith wrote:
>> Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> 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.
Yep, learned that when I tried to put picobsd on my 2MB laptop.
Vince.
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