Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 17:30:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Kernel symbol table usage ? Message-ID: <200910022230.n92MUU06019028@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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Building an old-style monolithic kernel, for a minimalist installation, the symbol table file ends up being many times larger than the kernel itself. I'd like to move it off to secondary storage, _if_ that won't break anyting. Obviously, for crash dump analysis, one needs to have it available, but I'd be doing that on a different machine, with much larger storage available. Thus the question -- does anything in a system that _doesn't_ do *any* module loading (loadable module support is _not_ in the kernel) need the symbol table?
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