From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 16 23:49:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 422D316A400 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:49:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF70213C448 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:49:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l2GNnHqO046479; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:49:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l2GNnFZ3046478; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:49:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:49:15 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Jorn Argelo Message-ID: <20070316234915.GA46390@thought.org> References: <45F9C6ED.2010306@wcborstel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45F9C6ED.2010306@wcborstel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: youshi10@u.washington.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Optimizationn questions? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:49:05 -0000 On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:21:33PM +0100, Jorn Argelo wrote: > youshi10@u.washington.edu wrote: > >On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Danny Pansters wrote: > > > >Dan, > > I know that this has been discussed a few times before, but IMO > >running a slightly stripped down kernel (i.e. custom, not GENERIC) > >actually proves to be helpful in increasing boot times (if options > >were added statically) and compile times if [(# of options added) < (# > >of options in GENERIC)]. > I can confirm this too. I noticed on both desktop and servers the boot > time can be decreased by stripping the kernel configuration of stuff you > don't need. I don't have any hard facts to prove this but this is what > my personal experience is. > > Jorn > > Dan, Jorn, Thanks for another tip to squeeze the last picosecond out of my elderly box! (I just began re-building gcc-43 after its 12mar07 update; it may be better at loop-unrolling than gcc-3.x. Every jot helps;) gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix