2012/1/23 Edward Tomasz Napierała <[email protected]>: > Some time ago I've spent some time on trying to speed up loading > modules by the loader(8). Result can be found at: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/fast-loader-3.diff
I use it successfully on my FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE amd64 with ZFS on root. It sped up the loading time significantly, now booting on ZFS feels nearly as speedy as on UFS. > In my tests under VMWare Fusion, this cut the modules loading time > by half. I don't intend to commit the patch as-is - the first part > looks dangerous (the splitting was probably done for a reason), > the second is hackish, and the third doesn't improve anything by itself. > I'm working on something else at a moment; feel free to pick this up. Thanks -- Olivier Smedts _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: [email protected] - against HTML email & vCards X www: http://www.gid0.org - against proprietary attachments / \ "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : ceux qui comprennent le binaire, et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas." _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
