very common kernel modules slow down the boot process
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Thu Apr 3 14:04:31 UTC 2008
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 07:41:04AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Konrad Meyer wrote:
> > Quoth Andrew Farris:
> >> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >>> [1] One of these machines is an ancient i586. On this machine, RAM is
> >>> such kind of tight (64MB), any spared memory is valuable. More built-in
> >>> kernel modules probably will mean the death of Fedora on this class of
> >>> machines.
> >> I would have thought it already got there.. 64Mb wow?
> >
> > I have a i586 with 128M of ram running Fedora 8. It doesn't run X, but it
> > works great as a low-capacity web/dhcp/etc server and router.
>
> Do these older/limited machines do anything better now than they did in
> the 2.4 kernel days?
Good luck trying to get the installer to run on anything less than 512MB these days.
Dave
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