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Date:      Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:59:10 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Kwoody <kwoody@citytel.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel
Message-ID:  <19971027115910.42524@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971026161855.388A-100000@mybsd.net>; from Kwoody on Sun, Oct 26, 1997 at 04:26:06PM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.971026161855.388A-100000@mybsd.net>

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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



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