On 6/12/11 11:20 PM, Daniel Braniss wrote: >> On 6/12/2011 1:56 AM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: >> >>> Cutting modules out of the kernel in general does help speed up booting >>> but loading those same modules later in the boot process will just lead >>> you back to the same boot time. >> Loading modules via loader.conf is many times slower than doing it from >> disk after the system is partially booted. (As in, 2-3 seconds per >> module vs. nearly instantaneous for all 6.) >> >> I didn't offer my list as an example of what to do, I offered it as a >> syntax example. I would of course expect people to use appropriate >> discretion to load things in loader.conf that are necessary for boot. >> (Of course, the fact that people can easily get this wrong is a strike >> against the technique.) >> >> There is no point in having an _enable for this script because if the >> kld_list is empty, nothing happens. >> > Doug's solution is what we have been using for a very long time! > > the loader.conf solution is not practical when it's shared among many > hosts -like here where most of the hosts are dataless-, so, moving the not > essential ones to rc.conf was the obvious solution. what would be REALLY cool would be the ability to make loader.conf have some sort of conditional clauses.. e.g. if MAC== 01:02:03:04:05:06 blah > my .5 > > danny > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Mon Jun 13 2011 - 14:23:41 UTC
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