From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Mar 24 12:19:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D82D37B78B for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:19:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA21470; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:19:45 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA12529; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:19:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:19:14 -0500 (EST) To: Nick Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: catch22? In-Reply-To: <20000324124617.A4533@vt.edu> References: <20000324124617.A4533@vt.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14555.52502.104954.845351@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nick writes: > I boot my kernel from a floppy disk. To make it small enough to fit on the > disk, I strip it and gzip it. By stripping I lose the ability to gather > system stats via top, or vmstat. > > Is there a way to restore the information lost due to stripping to the already > running kernel? > > Is there a way to create a boot disk with less overhead than the one used > for kern.flp? Have you tried pointing the sysctl kern.bootfile at the unstripped version of the kernel? You might also look at the kvm_mkdb man page. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message