From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jul 13 12:13: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (tmp1.BSDI.COM [207.174.118.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D134337BDED; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:12:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA11515; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 01:06:40 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 01:06:35 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Greg Lehey , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: small update to handbook about debug kernels Message-ID: <20000713010635.A11472@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20000711131846.L11000@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <20000712103922.A29642@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000712145451.D11000@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000712145451.D11000@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:54:51PM +0100 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ben, On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:54:51PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > If you are using FreeBSD 3 or earlier, you should make a stripped > copy of the debug kernel, rather than installing the large debug > kernel itself: [...] > If you install and boot the debug kernel, without stripping > it as described above, symbol table lookup time for some programs > will drastically increase. Note also that older releases of > FreeBSD (up to but not including 3.1) used a.out kernels by > default, which must have their symbol tables permanently resident > in physical memory. With the larger symbol table in an unstripped > debug kernel, this is wasteful. Recent FreeBSD releases use ELF > kernels where this is no longer a problem. Yes. But wrap it in "...". N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message