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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

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