From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 02:36:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7477AA7A for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:36:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-lb0-f182.google.com (mail-lb0-f182.google.com [209.85.217.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E190B8FC0C for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:36:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f182.google.com with SMTP id go10so7561443lbb.13 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:36:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=StXFKxT/UOZlbPjNj9HTXFqWY3jl75jhxTP4GlIsPcc=; b=R7MYXCgjLROehLSr1wQTgWbtekaW1BkdYGrMC0y/76VRdy3eA04yC0WCUqF1hHLJ3s 1s21YraNL6FbWCl8Zue/ez+MmGABL/CRXo3neyrg3m5ZPDTu/puk+jawLOfO98crgkrG gOaYVAqAKFMQh5Y8/yJsXvNoVpCZWNh442J7Q= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=StXFKxT/UOZlbPjNj9HTXFqWY3jl75jhxTP4GlIsPcc=; b=ouZRxIvEYGN+u/4LoDvCd38l8nwdtqPwFtzF1WuUh/5btG12JBBAxBRdupIDX+kyHl CJ/Lm0fXni/I2icWAFu2E9KCfpAUWdG95h6MGRQcE9ApLmzhTs19vbD3iWQGjUQRPS47 puKg/fqRRlYA95/sgYPv0pQ2lUpEjOSzOoINFb8metGPwJ8+3cHn9IgQOm0kh7D03Dnr GWe+7mmNbU82fI2Wr5rb5Uhjm9WPPKXP5Xjzh4BWnMrzM7FPbtXy9nwu31NcljY6npeX vNYcDeR7Y8gvEUE5hGluwP3xEHfFP0VKFYc7yN5cV15KJyjF2lGu1+1y1gM6aM6G3JkF dw6w== Received: by 10.112.38.103 with SMTP id f7mr1422642lbk.120.1353897384713; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:36:24 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.154.168 with HTTP; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 18:35:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1353868081735-5764056.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <1353868081735-5764056.post@n5.nabble.com> From: Eitan Adler Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:35:54 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Help review the FAQ To: Jakub Lach Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkY7vmqfqzXmjL8RX/R0LWxnSJv735uvubvFA5+mxjt/tQg+kLfrGFfa0pavAueYUgXnra0 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:36:27 -0000 On 25 November 2012 13:28, Jakub Lach wrote: > Why is my kernel so big? > > "As long as you make sure you follow the steps above, you can build your > kernel normally, and you should notice a fairly large size decrease; most > kernels tend to be around 1.5 MB to 2 MB." > > Not really, stripped amd64 kernel is about 9 MB currently... Is this the size of GENERIC on release media? -- Eitan Adler