From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 22 17:12:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22239 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 17:12:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (ppp-d6.dialup.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22232 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 17:12:12 -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 RAA20160; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 17:09:05 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199808221709.RAA20160@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Sue Blake cc: Mike Smith , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= , 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 "Sun, 23 Aug 1998 01:01:33 +1000." <19980823010133.43922@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 17:09:04 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. Do the comparisons yourself and make up your own mind. Apart from maxusers being too small, GENERIC tries very hard to be one-size-fits-all. -- \\ 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