From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 8 1:14:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from urban.iinet.net.au (urban.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F2C837BB05 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 01:14:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from popserver-02.iinet.net.au (popserver-02.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.148]) by urban.iinet.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA28618; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 16:14:03 +0800 Received: from jules.elischer.org (reggae-22-95.nv.iinet.net.au [203.59.87.95]) by popserver-02.iinet.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA00902; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 16:13:43 +0800 Message-ID: <393F55AD.446B9B3D@elischer.org> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 01:13:33 -0700 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Nowlin Cc: Matthew Dillon , Bjoern Fischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kerneld for FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Nowlin wrote: > > Not to mention "how much memory do you really gain by unloading modules"? > Considering the price of RAM these days (although not as low as > it was, but I won't be spending $650 US for 16M any time soon > again), the few K that unloading a bunch of modules saves won't > EVER really be noticed by the 83Tb chunk that Nutscrape allocates. > > Excuse me, I must now think back to the dumbness achieved by people > re-compiling Linux completely statically in hopes that it'll speed up > their systems by not dynamically loading the libraries.... These > were the same guys who wanted to unload modules to save kernel RAM... The issue is with really small ram embedded systems. Making things CAPABLE of being small is different from making them dynamicly loadable. > > --mike -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000 ---> X_.---._/ presently in: Perth v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message