Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:09:20 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Has the size of stable /modules increased a lot lately? Message-ID: <20011119130434.L41811-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20011119122031.A8371@adv.devet.org>
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Arjan de Vet wrote:
> In article <p0510100ab81e2921e9dc@[128.113.24.47]> you write:
>
> >This is something odd I noticed when I did a buildworld. It may be due
> >to something I did, but I thought I'd mention it in case other people
> >start noticing the same thing. My system is working fine, so this is
> >not a crisis for me. Just an oddity that I thought I'd mention.
>
> I noticed it too recently when my / partition got full during the
> installworld phase :-(.
>
> A few weeks ago a change was MFC'd that will also compile modules with
> -g if you compile the kernel with -g. That's the reason why you are now
> seeing much larger modules than before.
Ack. kernel.debug doesn't get installed, and neither should
debug modules, IMHO, unless you do it deliberately.
A temporary fix, aside from the patch you suggest, would be to
strip the modules at install time (e.g., install -s).
That said, it is inevitable that new modules will appear (e.g.,
support for new filesystems and devices), so leaving some room to grow
in / is a good idea. When I originally installed 3.4, 100MB was
plenty. For new installs of 4.4, I'm using 200MB (and mounting /tmp
and /var as separate partitions, 3GB and 5GB, respectively), and probably
should have used even more.
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.)
behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net
I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs.
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