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Date:      Sun, 10 Dec 2006 16:50:22 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Advantages of trimmed kernel?
Message-ID:  <20061210155022.GA28750@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <200612100905.30430.kirk@strauser.com>
References:  <200612100905.30430.kirk@strauser.com>

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On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:05:25AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> Are there any real advantages to building a kernel stripped of unused drivers, 
> especially when running it on a fairly large machine?  For years, I've been 
> dutifully removing device drivers (or more recently, including GENERIC and 
> using 'nodevice') for everything I don't have.  But does this actually do 
> anything useful, or am I just tilting at windmills?

It will save a little bit of memory and diskspace and the machine will
probably boot slightly faster since it will not need to probe for
non-existing devices, but other than that I doubt it will make any
difference at all.



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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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