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

From: M. Warner Losh (imp_at_bsdimp.com)
Date: 10/20/04

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    Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:52:59 -0600 (MDT)
To: wb@freebie.xs4all.nl

    In message: <20041020154026.GA40554@freebie.xs4all.nl>
                Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> writes:
    : 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?

    Yes. Please see the first sentence of my reply:

    : > So long as it can be turned off, I don't care too much.

    Size does matter, so I have to be able to turn this feature off.

    Warner
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