From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 1 13: 7:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC5714CC1 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:07:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Message-ID: <19991101145247.56786@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:52:47 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: J McKitrick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: debug kernel size Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from J McKitrick on Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 06:01:40PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 1 November 1999 at 18:01:40 +0000, 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? Both :-) > p.s. I'll keep looking for that statement, i thought i found it > but it was the wrong one... Tell me when you find it, and I'll remove it. The statement (if it's there) was true when I wrote it (when we had a.out kernels), but it no longer applies to elf kernels. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message