On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:21:33PM +0100, Jorn Argelo wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Danny Pansters wrote: > > > >Dan, > > I know that this has been discussed a few times before, but IMO > >running a slightly stripped down kernel (i.e. custom, not GENERIC) > >actually proves to be helpful in increasing boot times (if options > >were added statically) and compile times if [(# of options added) < (# > >of options in GENERIC)]. > I can confirm this too. I noticed on both desktop and servers the boot > time can be decreased by stripping the kernel configuration of stuff you > don't need. I don't have any hard facts to prove this but this is what > my personal experience is. > > Jorn > > Dan, Jorn,
Thanks for another tip to squeeze the last picosecond out of my elderly box! (I just began re-building gcc-43 after its 12mar07 update; it may be better at loop-unrolling than gcc-3.x. Every jot helps;) gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"