Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:19:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>, gjb@comkey.com.au, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Veto? (was: Debug kernel by default (was: System size with -g)) Message-ID: <19990407141928.C2142@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990406191655.1119B-100000@current1.whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 07:21:30PM -0700 References: <19990407114127.Y2142@lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95.990406191655.1119B-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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On Tuesday, 6 April 1999 at 19:21:30 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> Have you tried this out? I have. I did the following on a 486DX/2-66 >> with 16 MB, running 2.2.6: >> >> time build directory size >> no symbols 34 min 5 MB >> symbols 44 min 25 MB > > On my P90 > > non-symbols.. about 6 minutes > symbols... about 25 minutes :-) (running X machine was unusable however) > > this is from memory.. I added more RAM (and anyhow build on another machine > now :-) I don't even rely on my own memory :-) Evidence is more convincing. >> Does anybody want to execute a power of veto, or shall I commit some >> changes? > > If you turn it on, make it a DEAD SNAP to turn it off > (maybe even look as sysctl hw.usermem or something.) I think a sysctl would be wrong. Environment variable if you want. But I think config -s would be the way to go. Maybe I can print an explicit message: # config GENERIC Building kernel with full symbolic support. Do "config -s GENERIC" for historic partial symbolic support. Don't forget to do a ``make depend'' Kernel build directory is ../../compile/GENERIC, Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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