From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 31 07:04:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22CE816A4CE for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:04:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE06D43D4C for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:04:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j2V74BDJ086609; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:04:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:04:10 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Ronald Klop Message-ID: <20050331070409.GD46288@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syscons options and memory use X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:04:16 -0000 In the last episode (Mar 31), Ronald Klop said: > The syscons manual page says: > " The following options will remove some features from the syscons > driver and save kernel memory. > [...] > SC_NO_SYSMOUSE > This option removes mouse support in the syscons driver. > The mouse daemon moused(8) will fail if this option is > defined. This option implies the SC_NO_CUTPASTE option > too. > " > > How much memory does this save (or how can I discover that)? Is it worth > it on a 96MB PentiumII laptop? I would guess that the memory savings is probably on the order of kilobytes. Useful if you're trying to prevent excessive swapping on an 8MB system. Not worth disabling on your system. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com