On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, 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. i didn't look into why, but there's some numbers to go from.
A bunch of those modules are also in GENERIC, what you're seeing is a lot of duplication.