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

Scott Long scottl at freebsd.org
Wed Oct 20 09:27:29 PDT 2004


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.

Scott


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