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

From: Ceri Davies (ceri_at_submonkey.net)
Date: 10/20/04

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    Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:40:02 +0100
To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>

    On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:25:56AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
    > jamie rishaw at google mail wrote:
    > >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..
    >
    > Disk space on the release CD images is at a premium, and putting debug
    > kernels on there generally consumes 10-15MB that could be used by
    > packages.

    Would you consider this something that we could run with in
    CURRENT/STABLE and just turn off for releases?

    Ceri 

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