/sbin/depmod -a
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Wed Oct 20 06:12:30 UTC 2004
Thomas Cameron wrote:
> 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.
You could also delete some of the modules you'll never use from
/lib/modules/. That would speed things up too! B^)
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