Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:44:31 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: devet@devet.org (Arjan de Vet), Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Has the size of stable /modules increased a lot lately? Message-ID: <p0510100db81f0f76e712@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20011119122031.A8371@adv.devet.org> References: <20011119122031.A8371@adv.devet.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 12:20 PM +0100 11/19/01, Arjan de Vet wrote: >Garance writes: > > > This is something odd I noticed when I did a buildworld. [...] > > > > 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. > >I noticed it too recently when my / partition got full during the >installworld phase :-(. > >A few weeks ago a change was MFC'd that will also compile modules with >-g if you compile the kernel with -g. That's the reason why you are now >seeing much larger modules than before. Okay, good. That's a reasonable change to have made, although the results caught me off-guard. As along as I know why the usage spiked I don't feel so bad about it. Perhaps the /usr/src/UPDATING file for stable should include an entry, just to warn people who do have DEBUG=-g that their next 'installkernel' is going to use a lot more disk space. Warner? Does that seem like a good idea? -- 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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?p0510100db81f0f76e712>