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Re: Modulized or monolithic kernel on notebooks ?



On 11/30/06 10:07:43AM +0000, A J Stiles wrote:
> I know of some people who like to install monolithic kernels  (and disable 
> module loading)  on servers; but that's done for security reasons, not for 
> speed.
> 

And those gains are dubious at best, kernel memory can still be altered via
/dev/kmem or /dev/mem on most distributions, I think the only one to include
any patches to mitigate that is Fedora but I'm not sure.

Jim.



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