From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 2 7:43:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from naboo.ethz.ch (naboo.ethz.ch [129.132.17.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6B9D37B414 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 07:42:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from carlo@vis.ethz.ch) Received: by naboo.ethz.ch (Postfix, from userid 224) id 79471275BA; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:42:42 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Fat kernel, needs dieting (again :-) To: matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org (Makoto MATSUSHITA) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:42:42 +0200 (CEST) Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20010802094921N.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> from "Makoto MATSUSHITA" at Aug 02, 2001 09:49:21 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010802144242.79471275BA@naboo.ethz.ch> From: carlo@vis.ethz.ch (Carlo Dapor) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The other day a guy (sorry I forgot who) says that > > 1) /boot/boot1 and /boot/boot2 can be safely removed, since these are > not used. It brings us about 8kbytes. > 2) /boot/loader can be kgzip(1)ed. It brings us about (approx.) 60kbytes. > > Hack 1) is already committed into 5-current so it's safe to do. Hack > 2) is not yet commited to any branches, but I've tested with recent > 4-stable and 5-current and it works fine. And top(1) just works fine ? When I gzip(1)ed kernels in the past, everything worked just fine, except for top(1) and IIRC ps, which could not access some structure - sorry for being very vague here, it has been some time. Ciao, derweil, -- Carlo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message