Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 14:45:15 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: Johannes Totz <johannes@jo-t.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to clean up / Message-ID: <CAN6yY1sONUNsuhcDM48Gqd=gVkcJJAAG0rx13KgBEE_4P-r0-A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <k9j6si$jg4$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <A802184434754A128800ECE0A900127B@CMOTUM25PC> <1354239860.19647.8.camel@eva02> <2A4F276A-B95D-4D03-86F4-0A7C5A06B9A9@gsoft.com.au> <CAN6yY1uwcUJi3Y4O=gJvf-e5obkgvzV3nn8HoCF54r0KvEzc9w@mail.gmail.com> <50B8758C.2070202@dssgmbh.de> <129391C5-DBD1-4E14-9834-0CEC8713C05E@my.gd> <k9j6si$jg4$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Johannes Totz <johannes@jo-t.de> wrote: > On 30/11/2012 10:25, Fleuriot Damien wrote: >> >> >> On Nov 30, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Alfred Bartsch <bartsch@dssgmbh.de> wrote: >> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Am 30.11.2012 08:16, schrieb Kevin Oberman: >>>> >>>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Daniel O'Connor >>>> <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 30/11/2012, at 12:14, mbsd <mbsd@isgroup.com.ua> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> =C3=8E=C5=BE ~ =C3=A2=E2=80=A0=E2=80=99 du -sh /boot/kernel 59M ke= rnel >>>>>> >>>>>> Try to recompile your kernel without debug. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Or delete /boot/kernel/*.symbols. >>> >>> >>> You may suppress the installation of the *.symbols files by inserting >>> the following statement into /etc/make.conf: >>> >>> # prevent installation of "*.symbols" in /boot/kernel >>> INSTALL_NODEBUG=3D yes >> >> >> >> In addition to the previous advice you've received regarding symbol file= s, >> you may also want to only compile and install the kernel modules you >> actually use. >> There's also the side benefit of the kernel being that much faster to >> rebuild. >> >> Get the list with "kldstat". >> >> Here for example, we only build a very few of them: >> $ kldstat >> Id Refs Address Size Name >> 1 19 0xffffffff80100000 b0eec0 kernel >> 2 1 0xffffffff80c0f000 bca8 geom_label.ko >> 3 1 0xffffffff80c1b000 1350 mfi_linux.ko >> 4 4 0xffffffff80c1d000 47958 linux.ko >> 5 1 0xffffffff80e12000 40c3 linprocfs.ko >> 6 1 0xffffffff80e17000 a14 linsysfs.ko >> >> >> This yields a very lightweight kernel folder, even when retaining the >> debug symbols: >> $ du -hs >> 46M . >> >> This is what you want in /etc/rc.conf : >> MODULES_OVERRIDE=3Dgeom/geom_label if_lagg if_vlan linprocfs linsysfs li= nux >> mfi/mfi_linux > > > This should be in /etc/make.conf? thiat woruld work, but it would be better to put it into /etc/src.conf. make.conf will define the variable for any make(1) operation while src.conf is only used for building/installing the world and kernel. (I'll admit that a namespace collision is very unlikely here, but I think it is just good practice to use src.conf for defining things only relevant to the OS.) --=20 R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
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