On 11/06/2011, at 22:37, Robert Watson wrote: > While it seems like memory is "free" these days, that's not really the case. > The base kernel footprint is quite observable in VM configurations, where > it's common to configure quite low memory footprints -- 256M, 512M, etc, in > order to improve VM density.
Speaking of memory - does loading something as a module impact on memory consumption by the kernel (one way or the other)? ie would it be a penalty to load stuff as a module, especially if you start loading 10's of them. (That said, I'm a fan of a small base kernel + modules for the many reasons listed in this thread :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
