From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 22 07:34:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA06915 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 07:34:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from paprika.michvhf.com (paprika.michvhf.com [209.57.60.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA06909 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 07:34:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vev@paprika.michvhf.com) Received: (qmail 15532 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Aug 1998 14:34:31 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199808220650.GAA17660@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 10:34:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Vince Vielhaber To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD takes 8 years to boot up Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22-Aug-98 Mike Smith wrote: >> 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. Yep, learned that when I tried to put picobsd on my 2MB laptop. Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null # include TEAM-OS2 Online Searchable Campground Listings http://www.camping-usa.com "There is no outfit less entitled to lecture me about bloat than the federal government" -- Tony Snow ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message