Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (757 mails)

[Roman Drahtmueller <draht@xxxxxxx>]

>
> Ok. If you install a kernel with modul support it doesn't consume memory
> or performance until the module is really used and loaded. That's clear.
> But what about driver or other things compiled directly into the kernel, so
> that the kernel grows ?
> Does this also has no effect on the kernel performance, e.g packet filtering,
> traffic management,... ?

Well, if you compile a kernel with ip-forwarding turned on but filtering
disabled, one would expect that the router is faster because the code is
just missing in the kernel. On a reasonably fast machine I'd say that
these effects should be neglectable.

Is anybody volunteering to test and measure/benchmark the differences?

>
> Bye
> Markus

Roman.
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