Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:42:42 +0200 (CEST) From: carlo@vis.ethz.ch (Carlo Dapor) To: matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org (Makoto MATSUSHITA) Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fat kernel, needs dieting (again :-) Message-ID: <20010802144242.79471275BA@naboo.ethz.ch> In-Reply-To: <20010802094921N.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> from "Makoto MATSUSHITA" at Aug 02, 2001 09:49:21 AM
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> 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
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