Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 01:01:33 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, "Jeff W." <dmt@bigfoot.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD takes 8 years to boot up Message-ID: <19980823010133.43922@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199808220650.GAA17660@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 06:50:36AM %2B0000 References: <xzp7m01b0jn.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no> <199808220650.GAA17660@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 06:50:36AM +0000, 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.
So do you mean that on my overworked 386 with 8 megs RAM and not much
swap I might as well use GENERIC and save the hassle of building special
anorexic kernels? If the difference is marginal, that changes everything.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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