Date: 22 Aug 1998 13:37:00 +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: <xzp7m01b0jn.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Sat, 22 Aug 1998 06:23:43 %2B0000" References: <199808220623.GAA17475@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) > You should qualify "slower" here. I would suggest "marginally" as > a good candidate. Not at all. Try loading lkms on a box with a kernel about half the size of your RAM. Been there, done that. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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