Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:30:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: zgabor@CoDe.hu (Gabor Zahemszky) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Smallest kernel ? Message-ID: <199604291630.SAA05654@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199604291208.MAA02545@CoDe.CoDe.hu> from "Gabor Zahemszky" at Apr 29, 96 12:07:56 pm
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> > > 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? Yes. BTW, stripping the kernel only saves disk space (precious on a floppy, but not that precious on the NFS server), the symbols do not occupy RAM. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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