From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 19 11:44:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B922A37B421 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 11:44:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAJJiXc136098; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:44:33 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20011119122031.A8371@adv.devet.org> References: <20011119122031.A8371@adv.devet.org> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:44:31 -0500 To: devet@devet.org (Arjan de Vet), Warner Losh From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Has the size of stable /modules increased a lot lately? Cc: stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 At 12:20 PM +0100 11/19/01, Arjan de Vet wrote: >Garance writes: > > > This is something odd I noticed when I did a buildworld. [...] > > > > It turns out my /modules directory is taking up 20meg, which seems > > a bit high. But by the time I did get the install to go ok, I had > > blown away all old copies of /modules, so I can't say for sure what > > the size used to be. > >I noticed it too recently when my / partition got full during the >installworld phase :-(. > >A few weeks ago a change was MFC'd that will also compile modules with >-g if you compile the kernel with -g. That's the reason why you are now >seeing much larger modules than before. Okay, good. That's a reasonable change to have made, although the results caught me off-guard. As along as I know why the usage spiked I don't feel so bad about it. Perhaps the /usr/src/UPDATING file for stable should include an entry, just to warn people who do have DEBUG=-g that their next 'installkernel' is going to use a lot more disk space. Warner? Does that seem like a good idea? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message