Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:52:59 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: wb@freebie.xs4all.nl Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: What do people think about not installing a stripped /kernel ?] Message-ID: <20041020.105259.18149825.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20041020154026.GA40554@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <6ff30abd04102008163115a32d@mail.gmail.com> <20041020.093211.78703993.imp@bsdimp.com> <20041020154026.GA40554@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> writes:
: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:32:11AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote..
: > In message: <6ff30abd04102008163115a32d@mail.gmail.com>
: > jamie rishaw at google mail <mitigator@gmail.com> writes:
: > : What are the performance implications of a debug kernel?
: > :
: > : 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..
: >
: > So long as it can be turned off, I don't care too much.
: >
: > However, I'm going going to take exception that it isn't a disk space
:
: Sure.. and we have plenty of Viagra spam to prove it ;-)
:
: > 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).
:
: But I assume you would run a customised kernel on these machines anyway?
Yes. Please see the first sentence of my reply:
: > So long as it can be turned off, I don't care too much.
Size does matter, so I have to be able to turn this feature off.
Warner
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