From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 26 17:29:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA04076 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 17:29:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA04066 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 17:29:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id LAA10539; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:59:10 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19971027115910.42524@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:59:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Kwoody Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Kwoody on Sun, Oct 26, 1997 at 04:26:06PM -0800 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Oct 26, 1997 at 04:26:06PM -0800, Kwoody wrote: > > Made my own kernel and it works! Just a quick question though, now that > I have a kernel specific for my machine it seems as though things are > running a tad quicker. Could this be possible now with way less stuff in > the kernel? It is 400k smaller. It was 1.2 meg now its a wee bit over 800k. That's a small kernel. I'm surprised you were able to remove that much from it. But I can't see that it should make much difference to the performance. > I know the reboot took way less time than it used to now that it only searches > for a few things. Even the probe for my HD's only takes 3 or 4 seconds > now and it used to be at least 10 seconds. It's more likely that your probes are taking the same time, but they're not timing out on non-existent hardware. Greg