Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:05:05 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Kernel symbol file alternate location Message-ID: <15D79365-F937-4974-A358-CC2DCF3E9442@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinOB2VhMVJMXom%2B8Nr57G_ngOAGgYg=BaL46Dvp@mail.gmail.com> References: <137EBEEE-0B62-4D4F-966C-43A3325C7DFB@gsoft.com.au> <AANLkTinOB2VhMVJMXom%2B8Nr57G_ngOAGgYg=BaL46Dvp@mail.gmail.com>
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--Apple-Mail-25-560911804 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 13/08/2010, at 10:43, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> [cain 14:07] /tmp >rm -f kernel/*.symbols >> [cain 14:07] /tmp >du -sh kernel >> 50M kernel > > Why not add support to the relevant libraries/code to support reading > compressed symbol files? Hmm, it does make a rather massive difference.. 206Mb -> 55Mb compressed(!) Unfortunately I have no idea how to go about it :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --Apple-Mail-25-560911804--
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