From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 25 11:54:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7616616A46E; Fri, 25 May 2007 11:54:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from redbull.bpaserver.net (redbullneu.bpaserver.net [213.198.78.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2747113C46A; Fri, 25 May 2007 11:54:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p54A5CFEE.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.207.238]) by redbull.bpaserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86E742E2A0; Fri, 25 May 2007 13:54:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from webmail.leidinger.net (webmail.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.102]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D550B5B6175; Fri, 25 May 2007 13:54:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from www@localhost) by webmail.leidinger.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l4PBsGpu047031; Fri, 25 May 2007 13:54:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from pslux.cec.eu.int (pslux.cec.eu.int [158.169.9.14]) by webmail.leidinger.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Fri, 25 May 2007 13:54:16 +0200 Message-ID: <20070525135416.7u2tw5ibtwwogko8@webmail.leidinger.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 13:54:16 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Ruslan Ermilov References: <20070525095146.GA45288@freebsd.org> <20070525105203.GB6500@rambler-co.ru> In-Reply-To: <20070525105203.GB6500@rambler-co.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.4) / FreeBSD-7.0 X-BPAnet-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-BPAnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BPAnet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-14.864, required 8, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -15.00, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME 0.00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO 0.14) X-BPAnet-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Roman Divacky , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: size of kernel after gcc4.2 upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 11:54:38 -0000 Quoting Ruslan Ermilov (from Fri, 25 May 2007 =20 14:52:03 +0400): > On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 11:51:46AM +0200, Roman Divacky wrote: >> hi >> >> I just noticed that >> spravci ~# ls -l /boot/kernel*/kernel >> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3389971 May 18 12:03 /boot/kernel.old/kernel* >> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5211345 May 25 11:47 /boot/kernel/kernel* >> >> ie. after gcc42 import the kernel size increased roughly by 60% thats >> a little too much. is there any forgotten option or something that >> makes the kernel grow so big? >> > My numbers are different (1% for the GENERIC kernel, and this > is with all code changes in-between): > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8942239 Apr 11 16:20 kernel.old/kernel > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9035021 May 24 16:23 kernel/kernel > > bde@ also reported a 1% code bloat in another thread, so I think > you should look at your own changes. My minimal kernel without additional changes shows: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2.5M 7 Apr 17:22 /boot/kernel.old/kernel* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8.1M 7 Apr 17:22 /boot/kernel.old/kernel.symbol= s* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3.9M 24 Mai 18:46 /boot/kernel/kernel* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 14M 24 Mai 18:46 /boot/kernel/kernel.symbols* But this is with debugging (-g) enabled. How's the .symbols generated? =20 Can there be some new stuff in the kernel which needs to be handled in =20 the .symbols file generation? Bye, Alexander. --=20 The relative importance of files depends on their cost in terms of the human effort needed to regenerate them. =09=09-- T. A. Dolotta http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137