svn commit: r277204 - head/sys/amd64/conf

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

On 15.01.2015 17:08, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> reading large monolitic kernel is slow too.
> 
> But not nearly as slow as loading 50-60 modules at boot time (on my stable/8
> I have 59 right now).  When you read one big file *once* you don't have to
> worry about caching reads.  With everything moved to modules, loader does a
> lot of superfluous disk access, and to remedy this we need smart(er) caching
> implementation.

Did you try on recent FreeBSD versions? E.g. stable/9 after r243243, or
just /boot/loader from head/ ?

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov