From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 22 9:49:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48ABF14D9A for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:49:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (jcw@localhost) by s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA42273; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 21:46:30 GMT (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: s8-37-26.student.washington.edu: jcw owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 21:46:29 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcw@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: bill slaybaugh Cc: FreeBSD List Subject: Re: newbie kernel question- In-Reply-To: <3810879B.EC8F4DB3@bright.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, bill slaybaugh wrote: >I am a recent entry to the FreeBSD realm, having used several >versions and distributions of Linux. >Using 3.2, I just built my first custom kernel. Nothing fancy; >pretty much just turning off devices and options that weren't >needed. I was pretty surprised when the size of the new kernel >came back as 5980783, when the generic kernel had been 2329748. >It does load faster, what with skipping unnecessary probing. >Why so much larger than the generic? >This is probably a classic newbie misunderstanding - - >and I'm in new territory. >Thanks in advance. You probably have a debug kernel with symbols built into it. I think you can "strip -g kernel" but it has been a while. FWIW, the debug kernel doesnt hurt performance. man strip Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells Jason Wells | "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither | freedom nor security." - Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message