Subject: Re: vmstat and netstat....
To: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
From: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/27/2006 18:45:41
> 
> By the way, ksyms is *also* a big size growth (though not as much as a
> whole kernel).  I'd rather have a sysctl consumer than have to allocate
> space in my kernel for a kernel symbol table.  (Again, this is because
> I'm operating in situations with tight ram constraints -- 8MB ram, and
> similar sized flash.)
> 
Note that if you use modules in the kernel you probably want ksyms to
feed the loader.  Especially if we ever add the now-8-years old in-kernel
linker :-)

-- Ragge