From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 13 01:35:16 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 1044110656A3 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:35:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 636568FC1C for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:35:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp121-45-156-6.lns6.adl6.internode.on.net [121.45.156.6]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o7D1Z6Xl086112 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:05:12 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Apple-Mail-25-560911804; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1 From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:05:05 +0930 Message-Id: <15D79365-F937-4974-A358-CC2DCF3E9442@gsoft.com.au> References: <137EBEEE-0B62-4D4F-966C-43A3325C7DFB@gsoft.com.au> To: Adrian Chadd X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Spam-Score: 0.163 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 01:35:16 -0000 --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--