Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/amd64/conf

[Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost>]

On Sun Feb 20 2011 at 07:19:03 -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 01:45:01AM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> >>well, i dunno about others but i've found that the old modules
> >>lying around tends to fill up space pretty quickly, but ignoring
> >>that problem and looking at recent i386 builds, i see that the
> >>MONOLITHIC kernel set is only 440kb larger than GENERIC, yet the
> >>modules set is 3500kb.
> >
> >This is not a real argument for or against. But the above shouldn't affect
> >releases, which is after all the goal of any software project. If you track
> >current, you are developing, or at least interested in the development, and
> >in that case having modules outweight the potential or real space costs, 
> >IMO.
> >You can always delete the modules, like you presumably delete old kernels 
> >too.
> 
> "...ignoring [the old modules] problem ..."
> 
> A _single_ instance of modules on amd64 occupies > 11MB
> 
>       # du -sk dest/amd64/stand/amd64/5.99.46/
>       11404   dest/amd64/stand/amd64/5.99.46/
>       #
> 
> That's nearly as much as the total size of a GENERIC kernel (about 13MB 
> today).

I'll venture a guess that GENERIC doesn't include zfs compiled with -g.

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