Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:41:10 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: paulg@interlog.com (Paul Griffith) Subject: Re: boot -c vs. a customer kernal Message-ID: <19970922214110.MU35681@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970922090710.11972A-100000@shell1.interlog.com>; from Paul Griffith on Sep 22, 1997 09:11:52 -0400 References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970922090710.11972A-100000@shell1.interlog.com>
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As Paul Griffith wrote: > Am I correct to assume that when I use the '-c' option at boot to > disable unused drivers that the drivers are still in memory, just > not used ? Right you are. > Now if I make a custom kernal with those drivers commented out, my > kernel should use less memory, but will it be any faster ? It probably won't be faster, except for the reduced paging activity due to more available memory. With 32 MB of RAM, the difference of a few hundred KB in kernel space is probably not noticable however. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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