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Date:      22 Aug 1998 12:53:43 +0000
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, "Jeff W." <dmt@bigfoot.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD takes 8 years to boot up
Message-ID:  <xzplnohb2js.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:06:25 %2B0000"
References:  <199808211706.RAA10911@dingo.cdrom.com>

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Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> writes:
> You can also just 'disable' them in userconfig.  This prevents them 
> being probed, but leaves them there for when you need them.

They still take up memory and make the kernel slower to load and link
(one consequence of which is that modload is very slow, especially on
boxes with little memory)

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no

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