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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