Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 20:23:33 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kerneld for FreeBSD Message-ID: <200006090323.UAA01210@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jun 2000 01:13:33 PDT." <393F55AD.446B9B3D@elischer.org>
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> Mike Nowlin wrote: > > > > > Not to mention "how much memory do you really gain by unloading modules"? > > Considering the price of RAM these days (although not as low as > > it was, but I won't be spending $650 US for 16M any time soon > > again), the few K that unloading a bunch of modules saves won't > > EVER really be noticed by the 83Tb chunk that Nutscrape allocates. ... > The issue is with really small ram embedded systems. > Making things CAPABLE of being small is different from making > them dynamicly loadable. Nobody in their right mind is going to produce a "really small ram" embedded system that features the sort of nondeterminism that "automatically" (read 'randomly') unloading modules would involve. It's simple; a kernel-module-handling-daemon does not have anything to offer us at this time. We don't need one; the problems it might be applied to solve have already been solved differently, and we are (generally) happy with the results. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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