Subject: Re: Cost of enabling ALTQ in kernels
To: David Brownlee <abs@absd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/16/2007 15:53:23
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 08:39:19PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
>
> I have a couple of gateway boxes where I want to use ALTQ
> (primarily for limited bandwidth to/from certain test
> machines). In order to minimise custom kernel proliferation
> I'd like to just enable ALTQ in all kernels, but only turn
> it on on certain machines.
>
> Is there any significant network performance or other cost
> in having ALTQ compiled into the kernel but not used?
It certainly makes the kernel considerably larger.
Thor