From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Nov 9 11:11: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2550B37B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:11:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eA9JB2g21483; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 12:11:02 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id MAA43086; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 12:11:02 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011091911.MAA43086@harmony.village.org> To: Matt Dillon Subject: Re: Silly question Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Nov 2000 11:06:22 PST." <200011091906.eA9J6Ms10566@earth.backplane.com> References: <200011091906.eA9J6Ms10566@earth.backplane.com> <200011091903.MAA43016@harmony.village.org> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 12:11:02 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200011091906.eA9J6Ms10566@earth.backplane.com> Matt Dillon writes: : :Now that the boot loader supports compressed kernels and has for some : :time, I was wondering why we don't gzip our kernels and kernel driver : :modules like we do man pages. : : : :Warner : : Hmm. What about when libkvm needs to do a symbol lookup? Or : the system needs to makes a crash dump? ps, top and all that seems to work with a compressed kernel (just tried it). When the system makes a crash dump, doesn't it just splat memory into the swap partition in a rather stupid way? I don't know about other programs, but I do know that top just uses kvm_open to get its kernel variable needs met. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message