On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 18:23 -0700, Rick Lim wrote:
On a AMD k6-500 /sbin/depmod âa 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.
You could also delete some of the modules you'll never use from /lib/modules/. That would speed things up too! B^)
-- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
