From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 15:18:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA08079 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 15:18:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA08071 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 15:17:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA28056; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 15:12:17 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604262212.PAA28056@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Smallest kernel ? To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 15:12:17 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604252317.BAA01406@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Apr 26, 96 01:17:30 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Perhaps just for the fun of it, I was trying to figure out what could > be the smallest kernel I could get for a diskless system. > By removing most things I managed to a 544.319 bytes kernel > (some 70KB are symbols), although this has FFS and no WD/FD driver. > NFS instead of FFS requires 100KB more. > > I was wondering, is there some option (apart from gzip) which can > be turned on to produce a smaller kernel ? Especially for NFS, > perhaps the 100KB are for both client & server, UDP and TCP code ? Strip the symbols. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.