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. 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
