Re: kernel size change

["Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 02:28:15PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> For the last years, my nearly-GENERIC[1] kernel had size around 30MB.
> Yesterday's kernel is 32MB.
> 
> Any ideas what changed, or how to find out?
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   29652280 Jun 27 12:40 /netbsd.10.99.4
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   31751416 Jul 11 22:57 /netbsd.10.99.5
> 
>  Thomas
> 
> 
> [1] amd64/GENERIC plus
> options FONT_GO_MONO12x23
> no options FONT_BOLD16x32
> no options FONT_BOLD8x16
> options         COMPAT_LINUX
> options         COMPAT_LINUX32

The amd64 maximum page size (or something like that) is 2MiB and I
suspect a section of your kernel just crossed that boundary.  Anyway,
check things like size(1) and nm(1) --print-size (maybe with --size-sort)
on both kernels.