Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:41:52 -0600 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advantages of trimmed kernel? Message-ID: <200612100941.53860.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <200612100919.59564.lane@joeandlane.com> References: <200612100905.30430.kirk@strauser.com> <200612100919.59564.lane@joeandlane.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sunday 10 December 2006 09:19, Lane wrote: > You say that you can't afford to take a production machine down, but > consider this: What if you trimmed all of the "fat" from the kernel on a > server, and then the server's nic goes bad. Well, that's an example of the kind of thing that makes me not want to hack GENERIC too much. Also, accidentally removing some critical driver is another drawback. So, with all the disadvantages, are there any real advantages to doing this? Saving half a meg of memory on a four gig machine isn't worth the aggravation. Squeezing an extra 10% performance out of the same hardware would be, though. -- Kirk Strauser [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFfCrB5sRg+Y0CpvERAnUDAKCEnMA3/L0BW2w+rozkfeV58x/7eACeNeSe Ynl194RGiWaWxpWQ0tD6s0U= =s3SZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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