Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:45:48 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] module, kbuild: Faster boot with custom kernel. |
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On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:15:43 +0100 Andreas Robinson <andr345@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 16:18 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:47:10 +0100 > > Andreas Robinson <andr345@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > the only thing I can say (the graphs are a bit complex to read) is > > that you are loading a LOT of very expensive modules that bring you > > no functionality. > > Well, yes. It is the generic Ubuntu kernel booting in all its bloaty > glory. :) But this is what most users are stuck with. The distro > vendors won't change their ways because they want their stuff to run > on anything.
the problem is that you are also having things that just don't make sense; even for the generalized case...
but I guess that is for Ubuntu to resolve. I don't see the machines I run (with Fedora) exhibit this same issue; while there are a bunch of modules, none of the ones that are expensive-and-useless in your charts are there.
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