From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 09:49:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA26491 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 09:49:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA26264 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 09:45:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id SAA05654; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:30:14 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199604291630.SAA05654@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Smallest kernel ? To: zgabor@CoDe.hu (Gabor Zahemszky) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:30:14 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604291208.MAA02545@CoDe.CoDe.hu> from "Gabor Zahemszky" at Apr 29, 96 12:07:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > I was wondering, is there some option (apart from gzip) which can > > > be turned on to produce a smaller kernel ? Especially for NFS, > > > perhaps the 100KB are for both client & server, UDP and TCP code ? > > > > Strip the symbols. > > Once, I read that striping the kernel is not a good solution, > because some programs (who, ps, etc) cannot work after it. > Isn't it true for FreeBSD? Yes. BTW, stripping the kernel only saves disk space (precious on a floppy, but not that precious on the NFS server), the symbols do not occupy RAM. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================