From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 10 15:25:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C85537BBB9; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:25:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13BlY0-000MOJ-00; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:57:04 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13BlY0-0008iu-00; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:57:04 +0100 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:57:04 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: John Baldwin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Automatic reboot out of the blue. Message-ID: <20000710225704.G94380@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <200007092146.OAA00558@john.baldwin.cx> <87hf9z2c37.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <3968DCB4.C274A2D5@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GdbWtwDHkcXqP16f" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3968DCB4.C274A2D5@FreeBSD.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --GdbWtwDHkcXqP16f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable John Baldwin wrote: > With an ELF kernel (such as we've had since 3.1), the debugging > symbols are skipped over when the kernel is loaded, so the memory > usage will stay the same. Aha, thanks. The handbook says this: You may also install the unstripped kernel, but symbol table lookup time for some programs will drastically increase, and since the whole kernel is loaded entirely at boot time and cannot be swapped out later, several megabytes of physical memory will be wasted. You're saying that's wrong? If so, I may as well make use of my new commit bit and fix it. :-) Is the bit about symbol talble lookup time still correct? If so, I suggest removing everything from "and since" onwards. There's another problem with that bit, which is addressed in a PR I'm looking at (basically it says to copy the kernel and strip it, but this is done for you these days). --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D --GdbWtwDHkcXqP16f Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: vuToeT9WpthG3SkGLFWYKu+53vI5lj89 iQCVAwUBOWpGrysPVtiZOS99AQH1qgQAo/G1A1ZTYBMZzgK4I9vlaGqePftFoN0r v7PvjElQci/5OT2gqvmTRpq3pyqBe31kb+JGYMz9QxUodWZdh1Qx0EjMn5vOrK7F 72zAI6cLyaWCRHgJmRd3R5fkkci7ajjYNJ19qTj3ea0a0F2X1wNr6wbCzbGDC3Ry jYpVEf58y2Y= =OEJw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GdbWtwDHkcXqP16f-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message