What I am not understanding is the difference between using a monolithic style kernel with everything compiled in vs. modules. Is there a lower memory footprint if modules are used.
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Hahn [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 23 March 2013 15:22 To: Jonathan Aquilina Cc: 'Beowulf Mailing List' Subject: RE: [Beowulf] Clustering VPS servers > Aren't you going to improve overall system performance in the sense > that you don't eat up ram with stuff you don't need compiled into it. > Why have NVidia modules compiled into the kernel if your running ati etc. most drivers are compiled as modules. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
