Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 02:30:47 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advantages of trimmed kernel? Message-ID: <200612110230.47544.fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <b34be8420612101747m4c0f8e57ifd8414ff14a47502@mail.gmail.com> References: <200612100905.30430.kirk@strauser.com> <200612110100.26229.fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> <b34be8420612101747m4c0f8e57ifd8414ff14a47502@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday 11 December 2006 01:47, Juha Saarinen wrote: > On 12/11/06, RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> wrote: > > As I understand it the argument in favour of smaller kernels isn't that > > they free-up memory for other uses, it's that they make better uses of > > memory cache. > > > > OTOH big blocks of code that are rarely entered probably aren't going to > > degrade performance much. > > Security through less code? Hmm, dunno. Who mentioned security?
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