From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 23 05:11:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F6B7106566C; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:11:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from harvey.two.face.kent@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f54.google.com (mail-ww0-f54.google.com [74.125.82.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 691F58FC0A; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:11:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwa36 with SMTP id 36so5986386wwa.13 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:11:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id :disposition-notification-to:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Qnr6cW74kt+4VrJT88MunghM5KC5oyF3tSXvuLguz5Q=; b=NQZAZZeCwkZ0CSq3K6tBtU9HEoAFZ9AlqQYpn731FVs/i85tkI5G5NSz95ljO7qV0J N/4SBwyeZI39DmK4W8iaOb4Qv0hEXMpzzcdHNx9gH/jsfwuBBO/PTjyPC4kdaG50gJCz dkKPfLUwXmPaQQjFbWAAT6PC/lVVKhZ0rMywQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:user-agent :mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=FxXODS8Y3TPdBnexdPk4KhE9rlgp7m9GrObRCsQ7eJQFMTExUx+NY954Akw7bRP/5/ G3jrOYQqWlq5BymCFbI63eAG96HBR0mnI3oal5a6m/3gP7zsd0iHkgBjsN7PkbIN9sBz PQtH4HAIgCKLGq8gYtqNut05srSojTlQd+6tw= Received: by 10.216.90.145 with SMTP id e17mr1638434wef.106.1271999491205; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:11:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (182.145.193-77.rev.gaoland.net [77.193.145.182]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x6sm1117061gvf.27.2010.04.22.22.11.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:11:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BD12B9E.4090606@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:09:50 +0200 From: xyz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100331 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul B Mahol References: <4BCEF432.7070707@gmail.com> <4BCEFC8E.2070409@gmail.com> <4BD0B51F.60308@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ivailo Tanusheff , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lighten kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:11:33 -0000 Those numbers mean the size in mo, of linux kernel (3.2mo), and freebsd kernel (33,9mo) for the same hardware configuration. Is it difficult to update the patch? On 04/22/10 23:54, Paul B Mahol wrote: > On 4/22/10, xyz wrote: > >> Hi >> Thank you for your answer >> But "I can't believe" that lighten the kernel of useless drivers, saves >> only few bytes, by removing whole useless modules (sound, ata/sata, agp...). >> Furthermore, I think about free space that could be save too, in the >> hard drive this time. >> Why for the same configuration, linux kernel is lighter than the Freebsd >> kernel? (3.2mo ; 33.9mo) >> > Can you be more specific? What those numbers mean? > > >> And, can you release your patch please? >> > I can, but it may be out of sync. >