From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 6 09:39:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43879106564A for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:39:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (tunnel490.ipv6.xs4all.nl [IPv6:2001:888:10:1ea::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A50228FC0C for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:39:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n669d4GO079670; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:39:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id n669d4o6079669; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:39:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:39:04 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot To: Dimitry Andric Message-ID: <20090706093904.GA79434@ei.bzerk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ruben de Groot , Dimitry Andric , Dan Naumov , "Patrick M. Hausen" , FreeBSD Stable Mailing List 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> <4A51B9FA.9010906@andric.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A51B9FA.9010906@andric.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ei.bzerk.org X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (ei.bzerk.org [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:39:07 +0200 (CEST) Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List , Dan Naumov Subject: Re: What is /boot/kernel/*.symbols? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:39:10 -0000 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.