/sbin/depmod -a
Thomas Cameron
thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Wed Oct 20 03:59:10 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 18:23 -0700, Rick Lim wrote:
> On a AMD k6-500 /sbin/depmod –a takes a long time to run, approx 30
> seconds.
>
> Is there any way to speed it up?
Hi Rick -
>From the depmod man page:
depmod creates a list of module dependencies, by reading each module
under /lib/modules/version and determining what symbols it exports, and
what symbols it needs.
That means that depmod has to tickle a BUNCH of modules. On an old 500
MHz machine it is likely going to take a while. 30 seconds doesn't
surprise me.
You might speed things up by throwing more memory at it. You will
probably speed things up by going with a faster disk. And of course, a
faster processor and memory wouldn't hurt, either.
BTW - would you please not post in HTML in the future? Some mail
readers get all wonky with it and a lot of list members get wonky from
that.
Thomas
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