very common kernel modules slow down the boot process

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 3 12:41:04 UTC 2008


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?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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