En Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:24:26AM +0800, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla escribio:
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#_ What have you got? This 2.4.5 workstation I'm using now has got a
#_ 672,205 byte image. My laptop has got a 596,625 byte 2.4.8 kernel.
#_ The default 2.4.2 kernel installed by Red Hat 7.1 (and personally I
#_ think the Red Hat kernels are horrendously bloated) is 781,806 bytes.
#_ But then again, I try to go for modules wherever I can get away with
#_ them; saves a fair bit of memory. How often do I actually use floppy
#_ disks? Almost never, but I occasionally need to, so I compile that as
#_ a module. How often do I need to read the Windows 98 partition on the
#_ dual-boot machines I own? Seldom, so VFAT and MS-DOS file system
#_ support go into a module. How often do I use my Zip drive? Seldom
#_ too, so it goes into a module, and as it's the only SCSI device I own
#_ at the moment, SCSI support also goes into a module. My CD-ROM? Once
#_ in a blue moon, so once again, into a module it goes. All told the
#_ modules I've mentioned already add up to some 250K, and if you
#_ compiled that into the kernel, that's 250K you're never going to see
#_ again, because the kernel never gets swapped out, and 250K that is 99%
#_ of the time dead weight because you only occasionally use it.
#_
#_ Just my two centavos worth...
Wrong! this is very valuable advise!
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