Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 06:50:36 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, 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: <199808220650.GAA17660@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "22 Aug 1998 13:37:00 GMT." <xzp7m01b0jn.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no>
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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. FreeBSD doesn't run in 2M anymore. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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