From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 22 12:50:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA13570 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 12:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA13559 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 12:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA12339; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:50:45 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id VAA15372; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:41:11 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970922214110.MU35681@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Paul Griffith on Sep 22, 1997 09:11:52 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)