From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 13 01:13:34 2010 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 4D2FE1065672 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:13:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D03628FC08 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:13:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy26 with SMTP id 26so1215735ewy.13 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:13:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dTqHp5Wx9alGxnyak13wmR83tLh5Zw/1kYhouB+4pOE=; b=DgbTClnRSsmlp6johDrVUIVQWq49DcIE+LKm++aug7TfS4QNNZWde7b6hCeOraXuGw 8Pal9dZ5jyV5WJs/q8znjupD2fxVTs+VkSdDoBT3HZdO729uiyahKrsyNMtQvgrNaXra hiuOK9UjhHPqieYE1GWrG5qlEqIEGwq0OMdZQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=WPdRQTHPQhE/vpSL+kEfkRWrKQMyzrfflB0TU76Nq6ICTd0pcIAUcat6Bt9fxk6KY7 B65cyg2JL8N9TfEKuaKNa7exl+MV50/F8DGYEr23gXBeCXgZixmcdpvuW5w+cX5xyV9R l4MSsFNIeb8XRjU7lWeSd2XdTtR0nNz8UtjKs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.31.134 with SMTP id y6mr34631ebc.49.1281662012715; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:13:32 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.213.112.140 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:13:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <137EBEEE-0B62-4D4F-966C-43A3325C7DFB@gsoft.com.au> References: <137EBEEE-0B62-4D4F-966C-43A3325C7DFB@gsoft.com.au> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:13:32 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: MHLc_ZgBPX-4ojrqpUd1pI0qRZc Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: "Daniel O'Connor" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-stable Stable Subject: Re: Kernel symbol file alternate location 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: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:13:34 -0000 On 5 August 2010 12:41, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Is it possible to tell installkernel to put the symbol files elsewhere? > > IMO somewhere in /usr would be good - you don't need them to boot (or cra= shdump, etc) and they increase the size of the kernel by a factor of 5(!), = eg.. > [cain 14:07] /tmp >du -sh kernel > 258M =A0 =A0kernel > [cain 14:07] /tmp >rm -f kernel/*.symbols > [cain 14:07] /tmp >du -sh kernel > =A050M =A0 =A0kernel Why not add support to the relevant libraries/code to support reading compressed symbol files? Adrian