Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 15:05:55 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: zgabor@CoDe.hu, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Smallest kernel ? Message-ID: <199604292205.PAA05283@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199604291630.SAA05654@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Apr 29, 96 06:30:14 pm
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> > > > 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. Gzip only saves disk, not RAM. I thought disk was the goal, not RAM. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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