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Date:      Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:01:19 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Fwd: What do people think about not installing a stripped /kernel ?]
Message-ID:  <4176D21F.3060108@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041020154026.GA40554@freebie.xs4all.nl>
References:  <41767CF1.2020005@FreeBSD.org> <6ff30abd04102008163115a32d@mail.gmail.com> <20041020.093211.78703993.imp@bsdimp.com> <20041020154026.GA40554@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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Wilko Bulte wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:32:11AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote..
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>>In message: <6ff30abd04102008163115a32d@mail.gmail.com>
>>            jamie rishaw at google mail <mitigator@gmail.com> writes:
>>: What are the performance implications of a debug kernel?
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>>: Disk space really shouldnt even be an issue.. if it is, and its down
>>: to the difference of 20 megs, well, duno. 512 meg CF's going for
>>: sub-$50 .. the only reason i could see even a debate would be any
>>: significant performance hits..
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>>So long as it can be turned off, I don't care too much.
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>>However, I'm going going to take exception that it isn't a disk space
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>Sure.. and we have plenty of Viagra spam to prove it ;-)
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>>starting to fill up.  In addition, we sometimes deploy new kernels to
>>the field and 16MB takes a lot longer to upload than 3MB (think really
>>bad connectivity to many of the remote locations our systems may be
>>deployed in).
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>But I assume you would run a customised kernel on these machines anyway?
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couldn't the instalation procedures install as stripped one if there 
wasn't room in /?

it might save someone's hide..

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