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Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 01:01:33 +1000
From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD takes 8 years to boot up
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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.

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Regards,
        -*Sue*-


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