Christopher Ballog wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> If I add many device drivers as modules to the kernel ( for example the cdrom
>modules ) how will this effect the kernel?
>
> My guess would be, that kernel will be slower and larger, do to the over head
>involved.
No, if you add the drivers as modules, you will not be adding to
kernel size, you will be making it smaller. You can either
build things permanantly into the kernel, or make them as modules.
If you make them as modules, they are only loaded into ram memory,
when you do an insmod, or kerneld automatically installs them
when requested by the kernel.
If you load up a bunch of modules, you will be slowing things down.
You should remove modules when done with them. Alot of people
don't start sound, unless they need to use it. Then remove sound
when you are done.
You also slow things down by starting alot of services and daemons
which you don't really need. You may not need the http, ftp, and
telnet going on a workstation. There are alot of things you can turn
off. Automount, cron, atd, are not neccessary, although quite
useful.
On the bright side, I was reading thru the 2.2 kernel docs, and
it includes loadable module support within it, as a replacement
for kerneld. The cool feature about this new loadable module
support, is that it will automatically remove the module from
memory if it hasn't been used in a few minutes.
I'm very excited about the 2.2 kernel after reading about the new
features.
-
To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the
archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
