Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 23:01:41 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Has the size of stable /modules increased a lot lately? Message-ID: <p0510100ab81e2921e9dc@[128.113.24.47]>
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This is something odd I noticed when I did a buildworld. It may be due
to something I did, but I thought I'd mention it in case other people
start noticing the same thing. My system is working fine, so this is
not a crisis for me. Just an oddity that I thought I'd mention.
[and apologies if this has been covered in some recent message, but I
don't remember any reference to anything like this]
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I went to do a buildworld today, and ran out of space in '/' when it
came time for the 'installkernel' step. After removing a number of
other files I eventually did get it to install, but '/' is still a
bit cramped.
It turns out my /modules directory is taking up 20meg, which seems a bit
high. But by the time I did get the install to go ok, I had blown away
all old copies of /modules, so I can't say for sure what the size used
to be.
My recent buildworld times were:
Oct 13th, Nov 11th (or 12th), Nov 18th
Looking at the output from the daily log-runs, there was a definite
spike in disk-usage in '/' with the install on the 11th, and another
jump today (it's a bit hard to say how much, given how many unrelated
files I had to remove to get the installkernel to work). Right now I
have 44-meg tied up in /kernel+/kernel.old+/modules+/modules.old, and
back at the start of November *everything* in '/' added up to about
43-meg.
In comparing my /modules to someone who did a buildworld in early Nov,
all of my modules are larger than his.
My /etc/make.conf includes:
CFLAGS= -O -pipe
NOCLEANDEPENDS=true
USA_RESIDENT= YES
And my kernel config does include 'makeoptions DEBUG=-g'. And I am also
running with softupdates on for '/', which makes the 'installkernel' a
bit more likely to fail when free space is low. The thing is, all of
those have been true for at least six months, so that does not explain
why I'd see a sudden spike. The only kernel-config change I've made
since Sept is to add device 'urio' (presumably that wouldn't blow up
the size of ALL modules). I'll probably take out the DEBUG in my kernel
config, or turn off softupdates (and mount a separate /tmp), so I'm not
in a bind here. I'm just curious why there would be a sudden jump.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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