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Date:      Sun, 13 Jun 1999 19:56:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:      David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>
To:        "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Huge Kernel
Message-ID:  <14180.17712.668891.943774@trooper.velocet.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906130906440.21285-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906130906440.21285-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>

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>>>>> "Jason" == Jason C Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu> writes:

Jason> I recently received a "File System Full" message for / on a
Jason> 3.2-STABLE box. Upon investigating, I discovered that a
Jason> recently built kernel was almost 8 MB. I am not sure when the
Jason> kernels got so big because my kernel.old from who knows when
Jason> was also huge.

Jason> Has something changed in the kernel build procedure that would
Jason> cause this?  Have I missed some new feature?

The only thing that comes to mind is enabling debugging symbols.  When 
you add -g to a kernel, the size grows a bit :).

Dave.

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