Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 17:21:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott <scott@SchematiX.net> To: Dexnation Holodream <dex@wankers.net> Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD takes 8 years to boot up Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9808221720350.331-100000@SchematiX.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980822180231.339A-100000@localhost>
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On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Dexnation Holodream wrote: > On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Cy Schubert wrote: > > > > Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> writes: > > > > It also may be a good idea to remove other unused devices from the=20 > > > > kernel as well. The disadvantage to this is that every time you change=20 > > > > your configuration you will need to rebuild the kernel. Hopefully that=20 > > > > won't be that often. > > > > > > Recompiling the kernel on anything above P150 is a matter of a couple > > > of minutes at most if you use the '-n' option to config (but remember > > > to always make depend!) The advantages are quicker booting and a > > > smaller memory footprint. > > > > On my 486/DX33 it took approximately 90 minutes, on my P120 it takes > > about 6 minutes and on the P333's here at work it takes about 2 minutes. > > > it takes about 2 minutes on an AMD K6-233, as well, FYI Thats rather quick. I built a K6-2/300 machine with 64MB PC100 SDRAM and a rather fast IDE hard disk and it took over 5 minutes. Possibly something wrong with the system? My PII233 does it in 4 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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