Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:51:16 +0000 From: Johannes Totz <johannes@jo-t.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to clean up / Message-ID: <k9j6si$jg4$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <129391C5-DBD1-4E14-9834-0CEC8713C05E@my.gd> References: <A802184434754A128800ECE0A900127B@CMOTUM25PC> <1354239860.19647.8.camel@eva02> <2A4F276A-B95D-4D03-86F4-0A7C5A06B9A9@gsoft.com.au> <CAN6yY1uwcUJi3Y4O=gJvf-e5obkgvzV3nn8HoCF54r0KvEzc9w@mail.gmail.com> <50B8758C.2070202@dssgmbh.de> <129391C5-DBD1-4E14-9834-0CEC8713C05E@my.gd>
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On 30/11/2012 10:25, Fleuriot Damien wrote: > > On Nov 30, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Alfred Bartsch <bartsch@dssgmbh.de> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Am 30.11.2012 08:16, schrieb Kevin Oberman: >>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Daniel O'Connor >>> <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 30/11/2012, at 12:14, mbsd <mbsd@isgroup.com.ua> wrote: >>>>> Ξ ~ → du -sh /boot/kernel 59M kernel >>>>> >>>>> Try to recompile your kernel without debug. >>>> >>>> Or delete /boot/kernel/*.symbols. >> >> You may suppress the installation of the *.symbols files by inserting >> the following statement into /etc/make.conf: >> >> # prevent installation of "*.symbols" in /boot/kernel >> INSTALL_NODEBUG= yes > > > In addition to the previous advice you've received regarding symbol files, you may also want to only compile and install the kernel modules you actually use. > There's also the side benefit of the kernel being that much faster to rebuild. > > Get the list with "kldstat". > > Here for example, we only build a very few of them: > $ kldstat > Id Refs Address Size Name > 1 19 0xffffffff80100000 b0eec0 kernel > 2 1 0xffffffff80c0f000 bca8 geom_label.ko > 3 1 0xffffffff80c1b000 1350 mfi_linux.ko > 4 4 0xffffffff80c1d000 47958 linux.ko > 5 1 0xffffffff80e12000 40c3 linprocfs.ko > 6 1 0xffffffff80e17000 a14 linsysfs.ko > > > This yields a very lightweight kernel folder, even when retaining the debug symbols: > $ du -hs > 46M . > > This is what you want in /etc/rc.conf : > MODULES_OVERRIDE=geom/geom_label if_lagg if_vlan linprocfs linsysfs linux mfi/mfi_linux This should be in /etc/make.conf?
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