From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 18 20: 1:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A9F037B419 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 20:01:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAJ41h8115872 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 23:01:43 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 23:01:41 -0500 To: stable@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Has the size of stable /modules increased a lot lately? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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] - - - - 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message