From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 9 22:15: 0 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4546437B401; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:14:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from hardtime.linuxman.net (hardtime.linuxman.net [66.147.26.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D64A443F3F; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:14:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hardtime.linuxman.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1A6etd06595; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:40:56 -0600 Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id DCFF120F46; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:14:04 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:14:04 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: Bill Moran , Daniela , Mike Meyer , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Automatically include debug symbols? Message-ID: <20030210061404.GZ47877@over-yonder.net> References: <200302091847.39504.dgw@liwest.at> <15942.39589.709632.258724@guru.mired.org> <200302092116.33639.dgw@liwest.at> <3E46C44C.70203@potentialtech.com> <20030209233139.GB60203@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3E46E757.5060108@potentialtech.com> <20030210000214.GF60203@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030210000214.GF60203@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i-fullermd.1 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:32:14AM +1030 I heard the voice of Greg 'groggy' Lehey, and lo! it spake thus: > On Sunday, 9 February 2003 at 18:42:15 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > > > It's just a disk space issue then? Because ... if it doesn't eat up > > RAM, I have a hard time thinking why I shouldn't have all my > > binaries with debug symbols all of the time. > > I've been pushing for this, at least for the kernel build, for some > time. It can make a big difference in the size of the directories, > though. I've thought seriously several times about looking at making all my buildworld'd binaries with debug symbols. I expect it'd eat a massive chunk of drive space though. The kernel undergoes a rather notable size increase: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4242610 Jan 18 06:38 /boot/kernel/kernel* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 17684134 Jan 18 06:40 /boot/kernel/kernel.debug* -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message