svn commit: r222980 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 11/06/2011, at 22:37, Robert Watson wrote:
> While it seems like memory is "free" these days, that's not really the case. The base kernel footprint is quite observable in VM configurations, where it's common to configure quite low memory footprints -- 256M, 512M, etc, in order to improve VM density.

Speaking of memory - does loading something as a module impact on memory consumption by the kernel (one way or the other)?

ie would it be a penalty to load stuff as a module, especially if you start loading 10's of them.

(That said, I'm a fan of a small base kernel + modules for the many reasons listed in this thread :)

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