Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:39:04 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com> Subject: Re: What is /boot/kernel/*.symbols? Message-ID: <20090706093904.GA79434@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <4A51B9FA.9010906@andric.com> References: <4A4E174A.1050207@andric.com> <20090703144121.GC11039@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <4A4E1E24.3020303@andric.com> <20090703152150.GE11039@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <20090705003834.12211k8697td2o74@webmail.private.lan> <20090706073941.GA78371@ei.bzerk.org> <20090706074256.GD6306@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <4A51B721.5020505@andric.com> <cf9b1ee00907060141w110e36c3p5922d31b3acd1f62@mail.gmail.com> <4A51B9FA.9010906@andric.com>
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On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:46:50AM +0200, Dimitry Andric typed: > On 2009-07-06 10:41, Dan Naumov wrote: > > atom# uname -a > > FreeBSD atom.localdomain 7.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p1 #0: Tue > > Jun 9 18:02:21 UTC 2009 > > root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > > > atom# du -hs /boot/kernel* > > 205M /boot/kernel > > Right, so it's a lot bigger on amd64. I guess those 64-bit pointers > aren't entirely free. :) I'm not sure where the size difference comes from. I have some sparc64 systems running -current with symbols and the size of /boot/kernel is more comparable to i386, even with the 8-byte pointer size: > uname -p sparc64 > du -sk /boot/kernel 137918 /boot/kernel > So indeed, on amd64 and possibly some other 'big' architectures (ia64?), > cranking the default root filesystem size to e.g. 1024M would be nice. Indeed.
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