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Date:      Tue, 24 Aug 1999 10:41:52 -0400
From:      "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
To:        Michael Hartung <hartung@zkom.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, crossd@cs.rpi.edu
Subject:   Re: kernel size 
Message-ID:  <199908241442.KAA75516@cs.rpi.edu>
In-Reply-To: Message from Michael Hartung <hartung@zkom.de>  of "Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:48:08 %2B0200." <37C29488.70317DF2@zkom.de> 

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> Hello,
> 
> FreeBSD 3.1:    "1514418 Apr  7 13:16 kernel"   ( 2236663 Feb 15  1999
> kernel.GENERIC )
> 
> 
> FreeBSD 3.2:    "7877424 Aug 24 12:41 kernel"   ( 2329748 May 18 06:05
> kernel.GENERIC )
> 
> The two kernelīs are based on exactly the same
> kernel configuration file. The smaller one was
> compiled on a 3.1 system, the bigger one on a
> 3.2 system.
> 
> What is the reason for 6363006 Bytes difference?

Whenever I have seen this the reason has always been that 'kernel' is compiled
debugging, and still has all of the debugging symbols in it.  try the
following:
cp kernel kernel.debug
strip --strip-debug kernel
ls -l kernel

that should shrink it down to a reasonable size.

--
David Cross                               | email: crossd@cs.rpi.edu 
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