From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 6 19:29:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E0D4154D4; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 19:29:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id TAA24029; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 19:21:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 19:21:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Greg Lehey Cc: Archie Cobbs , Christopher Michaels , gjb@comkey.com.au, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Veto? (was: Debug kernel by default (was: System size with -g)) In-Reply-To: <19990407114127.Y2142@lemis.com> 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 Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > Have you tried this out? I have. I did the following on a 486DX/2-66 > with 16 MB, running 2.2.6: > > time build directory size > no symbols 34 min 5 MB > symbols 44 min 25 MB On my P90 non-symbols.. about 6 minutes symbols... about 25 minutes :-) (running X machine was unusable however) this is from memory.. I added more RAM (and anyhow build on another machine now :-) > > So you're right about the size. I don't see a really big difference > with the time; after using modern machines, it's painful either way, > but people who are used to building kernels on a 386/20 with 8 MB will > be delighted :-) > > I still definitely think that there should be a way to override the > symbols for people who really insist on not having them, but I don't > think that time or space are such an argument. > > Does anybody want to execute a power of veto, or shall I commit some > changes? If you turn it on, make it a DEAD SNAP to turn it off (maybe even look as sysctl hw.usermem or something.) > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message