Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:00:25 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advantages of trimmed kernel? Message-ID: <200612110100.26229.fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <457C4156.8010309@computer.org> References: <200612100905.30430.kirk@strauser.com> <20061210155022.GA28750@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <457C4156.8010309@computer.org>
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On Sunday 10 December 2006 17:18, Eric Schuele wrote: > FWIW... Its my understanding that > - the memory saved would be negligible. 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.
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