Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:12:40 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Kernel Question Message-ID: <20050131181240.GB2324@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <41FE6825.8060906@calarts.edu> References: <41FE6825.8060906@calarts.edu>
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On 2005-01-31 09:17, Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu> wrote: > The FreeBSD kernel is monolithic correct? Yes. At least, sort of. > Does it support or does it use kernel loadable modules and if so why? Yes. Because by not having everything loaded at the same time, a lot of memory can be saved. Memory which can be used to do more useful stuff. PS: You could have found hundreds of thousands of references for FreeBSD kernel modules on Google (almost 800,000 hits), without posting here. Use the network, please :P
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