On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:13:45AM +0800, well wrote: > If I use the default kernel of Slackware 8, the boot message shows > "Free unused kernel memory: 116k freed" > > And if I disable some inneed kernel option(scsi, audio,....), the boot > message shows > "Free unused kernel memory: 66k freed" > > With less kernel option, shouldn't be more memory freed?
No. The number is the amount of memory that the kernel used whilst booting but no longer needs. It's not the total amount of free memory. Your kernel is now smaller so it uses less memory, and so has less to free after booting. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
