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Date:      Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:55:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, tradica@yahoo.com
Subject:   Re: Kernel build - new build too big
Message-ID:  <200210312055.g9VKtUZ7040383@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021031204127.12359.qmail@web20705.mail.yahoo.com>

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>Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:41:27 -0800 (PST)
>From: Robert Bell <tradica@yahoo.com>

>I use the same kernel config file each time.
>(GENERIC without ethernets except miibus and fxp)

>The new kernel is almost twice as big.
>Usually the diff is a few K at most.

>bash# ls -l / | grep kernel
>-r-xr-xr-x  1  4042534 Oct 31 12:30 kernel
>-r-xr-xr-x  1  1976093 Oct 10 10:49 kernel.old

>I assume this is not a big deal, and just a simple
>error in the source somewhere. 

g1-9(4.7-S)[1] ls -trl /kern*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3308742 Mar  6  2001 /kernel.GENERIC
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3933346 Oct 12 06:50 /kernel.save
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3933346 Oct 13 06:26 /kernel.panic
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3938535 Oct 30 06:26 /kernel.old
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3938599 Oct 31 06:21 /kernel
g1-9(4.7-S)[2] uname -a
FreeBSD g1-9.catwhisker.org 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #333: Thu Oct 31 06:17:33 PST 2002     root@d144.catwhisker.org:/common/S1/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP_30W  i386

Even my old GENERIC kernel from March 2001 is closer to your present one
than to your previous one.  Maybe there was something weird with your
previous one...?

Cheers,
david       (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david)
-- 
David H. Wolfskill				david@catwhisker.org
To paraphrase David Hilbert, there can be no conflicts between the
discipline of systems administration and Microsoft, since they have
nothing in common.

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