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Date:      Fri, 6 Jun 1997 12:11:51 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: page fault
Message-ID:  <199706060241.MAA29508@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <19970605223427.LN28350@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Jun 5, 97 10:34:27 pm"

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J Wunsch stands accused of saying:
> As mika ruohotie wrote:
> 
> > > Be careful to not accidentally load this bloated kernel into
> > > memory. :)
> > 
> > it's only about 9 mgs. why not?
> 
> Because you're bloating physical memory with a symbol table you're
> never going to make _any_ use of.  (DDB can't use the local symbols
> and various strings anyway.)  It's not too hard to say ``strip -d
> /kernel'' before rebooting, is it? :)

... but if you leave them in, you get filenames and line numbers with
your traps.  I happen to like that sometimes 8)


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