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

From: Julian Elischer (julian_at_elischer.org)
Date: 10/20/04

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    Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:01:19 -0700
To: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>

    Wilko Bulte wrote:

    >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?
    >

    couldn't the instalation procedures install as stripped one if there
    wasn't room in /?

    it might save someone's hide..

    >
    >
    >

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