From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 14 1: 8:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from caligula.anu.edu.au (caligula.anu.edu.au [150.203.224.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41F0B14C2C for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 01:08:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rob@coombs.anu.edu.au) Received: from localhost (rob@localhost) by caligula.anu.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA03428; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 18:08:50 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: caligula.anu.edu.au: rob owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 18:08:49 +1000 (EST) From: Rob Hurle X-Sender: rob@caligula.anu.edu.au To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, TrouBle Subject: Re: 2.2.8 -> 3.2 kernel config In-Reply-To: <19990914144740.J10106@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Greg, Concerning bloated kernels: > > freebsd [14:18] /usr/src/sys/compile/TEST1 #ll kernel > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13578629 Sep 14 14:18 kernel > > > > 13.6MB! Not looking good. Any more ideas would be welcome. > > I missed the beginning of this, but this looks like you have a debug > kernel (-g option to config). This is good, not bad, since it enables Thanks heaps - yes, that was it. > > If you're using an older version of FreeBSD (2.X), you'll need "strip > -d" instead of "strip -g". > > In 4.X, "make install" will do this for you. An advance, IMHO. Cheers, Rob ---------------------------------------------------------- Rob Hurle rob@coombs.anu.edu.au Connect-A Tel: +61 2 6247 2397 PO Box 13 Fax: +61 2 6248 8905 Ainslie ACT 2602 Mobile: 0417 293 603 Australia ---------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message