From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 1 11:54:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABFB614A2F for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 11:54:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA32123; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:52:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:52:44 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor To: J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: debug kernel size In-Reply-To: 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 Hi, On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, J McKitrick wrote: > 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... ELF kernels do not load the debug info. The old a.out kernels did. Seems like Greg is right both times. (he was the one who mentioned the ELF kernel bit in this list recently) Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message