Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 13:33:55 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys sysctl.h src/sys/kern kern_sysctl.c src/sbin/sysctl sysctl.8 sysctl.c Message-ID: <20011216133355.A71423@iguana.aciri.org> In-Reply-To: <200112160740.fBG7eCM68417@harmony.village.org> References: <200112160255.fBG2tfi90738@freefall.freebsd.org> <200112160740.fBG7eCM68417@harmony.village.org>
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On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 12:40:12AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <200112160255.fBG2tfi90738@freefall.freebsd.org> Luigi Rizzo writes:
> : Note to developers: have a look at your code, there are a number of
> : variables which do not have a description.
>
> Someone else did this before, but phk backed it out because it didn't
> do i18n.
Looking at the commit logs, it seems that the reason was perceived
code bloat. Maybe this is not an issue anymore, but just in case
someone is interested, the kernel I am testing has a total of 552
sysctl vars (sysctl -dA), 323 of which have a non-empty description.
Just the variable names (sysctl -A |awk '{print $1}' | wc -c)
take ~12KB, whereas sysctl -dA | wc -c says 23050. Seems more than
tolerable, it is just 1% of the kernel size.
Compressed, these are 3415 and 7174 bytes respectively.
cheers
luigi
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