On 15.01.2015 17:08, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: >> reading large monolitic kernel is slow too. > > But not nearly as slow as loading 50-60 modules at boot time (on my stable/8 > I have 59 right now). When you read one big file *once* you don't have to > worry about caching reads. With everything moved to modules, loader does a > lot of superfluous disk access, and to remedy this we need smart(er) caching > implementation.
Did you try on recent FreeBSD versions? E.g. stable/9 after r243243, or just /boot/loader from head/ ? -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
