Hello everybody, hi
I recently compiled kernel 2.2.1 (my 1st attempt), and everything seems to be going smoothly (except for playing .wav files, but that's another story...) Anyway, did not put anything into "modules" (is that bad?)... Now, when I look at my /var/log/messages, I see this... monkeyhouse kernel: Memory: 30616k/32768k available (1000k kernel code, 416k reserved, 629k data, 44k init)Feb25 more than 384k reserved? hmm... Is that saying that my kernel ids 1MB? If it is, is that too big? Will I make it faster, leaner, smoother, etc bu sticking sound (+anything else?) into "modules"? well, if you're going to use modules all the time, it will make kernel a bit bigger, not smaller. If you're going to put some stuff into modules and use them occationaly and unload them when job is done (manually or automatically via kerneld/kmod), better compile most stuff as modules. i usually compile into kernel only what is really for everysecond usage: ext2, psaux and ethernet. All other stuff - floppy, sound, all filesystems, ppp... - is compiled as modules and managed by kerneld Thanks, Rich OK on 32meg PC my numbers for 2.0.36+patches are Memory: 31168k/32768k available (496k kernel code, 384k reserved, 720k data