From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 3 6:37:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from naboo.ethz.ch (naboo.ethz.ch [129.132.17.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1308837B401; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 06:37:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from carlo@vis.ethz.ch) Received: by naboo.ethz.ch (Postfix, from userid 224) id 51218275B6; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:37:54 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Fat kernel, needs dieting (again :-) To: ast@marabu.ch (Adrian Steinmann) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:37:54 +0200 (CEST) Cc: carlo@vis.ethz.ch (Carlo Dapor), stable@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200108022049.WAA14916@marabu.marabu.ch> from "Adrian Steinmann" at Aug 02, 2001 10:49:01 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010803133754.51218275B6@naboo.ethz.ch> From: carlo@vis.ethz.ch (Carlo Dapor) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Someone said on stable@freebsd.org: > > > The other day a guy (sorry I forgot who) says that > > That was me, , see also > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29272 > > and the copy of the earlier message below. > But carlo@vis.ethz.ch (Carlo Dapor) questions this: > > And top(1) just works fine ? When I gzip(1)ed kernels in the past, everything > worked just fine, except for top(1) and IIRC ps, which could not access some > structure - sorry for being very vague here, it has been some time. > > We are refering to a kgziped LOADER (/boot/loader) not kernel! The > loader on the boot floppy can be kgzip-ed safely and the pr=29272 > above has the one-line patch enclosed. Maybe obrien@FreeBSD.org who > was working on this might incorporate this patch too, saving us > another 60k on boot floppies? I was actually referring to a gzip(1)'d /boot/kernel/kernel. I just tried it out and it works fine with top(1) and ps(1). Ciao, derweil, -- Carlo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message