[clue-tech] localyesconfig

[Shawn Perry]

Tuxonice is a faster restore.  Recompiling is worth it as it happens
in the background while you're replying to this email.

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:32 AM, June Tate-Gans <june at theonelab.com> wrote:
> On 2/5/10, Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
>>
>> Let's gain a little perspective... if you can't easily see the
>> difference on a stopwatch, even a badly run one, all that extra
>> re-compiling isn't doing you as much good as you think it is!  :-)
>>
>> Should be in the order of many seconds difference in time to make the
>> lost time/productivity of re-compiling worth it.
>
> I respectfully disagree; if the time is about a half second's
> difference and you're constantly shutting down the machine (say, for a
> laptop), then you're actually saving time that does matter for the
> lifetime of the compile. Remember: even restoring from a hibernate
> session requires re-loading the modules from the ramdisk.
>
> Overall, though, loading modules will take at least a second if not
> more during the boot process. As I said in an earlier post, loading
> modules just from a /ramdisk/ is slow due to the crazy number of
> reference calls that modprobe has to make -- and this example is on a
> Core2 Duo @ 2.26GHz.
>
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