From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 1 10: 1:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBAF914F45 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 10:01:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id 11iLm4-000LeO-00; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 18:01:44 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA45935 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 18:01:40 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 18:01:40 +0000 (GMT) From: J McKitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: debug kernel size Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've seen some posts here to the effect that there is no need to strip debug info from a kernel, because this info is not loaded into memory. But somewhere in Lehey's book, i thought i saw a statement that the symbols ARE loaded into memory to allow debugging, and so they DO take up system resources. WHich is true? p.s. I'll keep looking for that statement, i thought i found it but it was the wrong one... -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message