Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 28 Apr 1996 12:11:01 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jon Lewis <> | Subject | Re: dropping kerneld... |
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On Sun, 28 Apr 1996, Alan Clucas wrote:
> What about for those things that are hardly ever used in a production > server, like the floppy drive, but it would be annoying to have to > recomplile the kernel for :) > > > Production server which is fixed in configuration and stuffed into a > > closet, works best with monolithic kernel. > > But this isn't how many people use their linux machines.... is it? > > > Any lurking need to use kerneld is easily cured by getting enough > > memory.
I've not messed with kerneld yet...but for my laptop with limited RAM, I can see a value to it. For my servers, which all have 32-64mb RAM, why bother with kerneld to save even a few hundred kb RAM. There's not a heck of alot on a server that could be moularized and left unloaded. The floppy code is about all that comes to mind. I suppose lp and serial could also...assuming they can be modules.
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