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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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