Re: filemon

Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> writes:
> I'm a bit confused. If I understand it right, you say loader.conf
> causes less memory fragmentation, but DES said "it still increases low
> memory fragmentation". So what is true? And is this something to watch
> out for, or is memory fragmentation not such a big deal?

I used the wrong term.  The loader loads the kernel and modules into a
particular region of memory, while modules loaded after boot can go
anywhere.  Furthermore, modules loaded by the loader cannot be unloaded.
So loading modules pre-boot does not increase fragmentation, but it uses
up memory from a much more limited pool than loading them later.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@FreeBSD.org