Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 12:11:02 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Silly question Message-ID: <200011091911.MAA43086@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Nov 2000 11:06:22 PST." <200011091906.eA9J6Ms10566@earth.backplane.com> References: <200011091906.eA9J6Ms10566@earth.backplane.com> <200011091903.MAA43016@harmony.village.org>
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In message <200011091906.eA9J6Ms10566@earth.backplane.com> Matt Dillon writes: : :Now that the boot loader supports compressed kernels and has for some : :time, I was wondering why we don't gzip our kernels and kernel driver : :modules like we do man pages. : : : :Warner : : Hmm. What about when libkvm needs to do a symbol lookup? Or : the system needs to makes a crash dump? ps, top and all that seems to work with a compressed kernel (just tried it). When the system makes a crash dump, doesn't it just splat memory into the swap partition in a rather stupid way? I don't know about other programs, but I do know that top just uses kvm_open to get its kernel variable needs met. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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