Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:16:34 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: tom@uniserve.com Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Typical space to build 2.2-STABLE? Message-ID: <199901271716.JAA25702@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901250901110.3594-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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In article <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901250901110.3594-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>,
Tom <tom@uniserve.com> wrote:
>
> > I have considered putting 3.0 on the machine, but I think the ELF binaries
> > are bigger and the machine is already hurting for space. I suppose I could
> > compile the entire system on NFS too. What kind of performance hit would I
> > take on the network or on the firewall machine?
>
> ELF binaries aren't that much bigger.
ELF binaries are _smaller_, not bigger. Check it out for yourself.
The reason is that ELF binaries don't include certain page-boundary
padding that a.out binaries have in them.
John
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