Re: [Fwd: What do people think about not installing a stripped /kernel ?]

From: Wilko Bulte (wb_at_freebie.xs4all.nl)
Date: 10/20/04

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    Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:40:26 +0200
To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>

    On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:32:11AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote..
    > In message: <6ff30abd04102008163115a32d@mail.gmail.com>
    > jamie rishaw at google mail <mitigator@gmail.com> writes:
    > : What are the performance implications of a debug kernel?
    > :
    > : Disk space really shouldnt even be an issue.. if it is, and its down
    > : to the difference of 20 megs, well, duno. 512 meg CF's going for
    > : sub-$50 .. the only reason i could see even a debate would be any
    > : significant performance hits..
    >
    > So long as it can be turned off, I don't care too much.
    >
    > However, I'm going going to take exception that it isn't a disk space

    Sure.. and we have plenty of Viagra spam to prove it ;-)

    > starting to fill up. In addition, we sometimes deploy new kernels to
    > the field and 16MB takes a lot longer to upload than 3MB (think really
    > bad connectivity to many of the remote locations our systems may be
    > deployed in).

    But I assume you would run a customised kernel on these machines anyway? 

    -- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org
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