From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 22 17:24:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA24490 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 17:24:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from SchematiX.net (schematix.net [24.234.31.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA24482 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 17:24:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@SchematiX.net) Received: from localhost (scott@localhost) by SchematiX.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA00360; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 17:21:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@SchematiX.net) Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 17:21:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott To: Dexnation Holodream cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD takes 8 years to boot up In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Dexnation Holodream wrote: > On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Cy Schubert wrote: > > > > Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group 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