On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:46:27 -0500 "ill...@gmail.com" <ill...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You aren't going to gain much in speed or size savings, so > do take care to understand what you hope to gain. If you > wish to shorten kernel compile times and reduce the size of > /boot, have a look at the MODULES_OVERRIDE and > WITHOUT_MODULES variables in /etc/make.conf. That > said, good luck, I haven't had any serious problems and I've > been using custom kernels since FreeBSD 4.1 or so. > While I agree in principle that compiling a custom kernel isn't usually worth it on modern machines, I recently gained a 65% disk space saving over GENERIC by bulding a custom kernel. Granted that was achieved because it's installed on a router with just 128MB RAM so I removed things like wifi and usb support, opted for "device mii" and added the PHY drivers I knew were used and added pf support, but it does show that substantial savings are still possible. Another reason for building a custom kernel is to add functionality that isn't available through modules, such as support for DTrace. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"