Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 12:08:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Smallest kernel ? Message-ID: <199604291208.MAA02545@CoDe.CoDe.hu> In-Reply-To: <199604262212.PAA28056@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 26, 96 03:12:17 pm
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> > > 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. Once, I read that striping the kernel is not a good solution, because some programs (who, ps, etc) cannot work after it. Isn't it true for FreeBSD? -- Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu> -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky
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