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

[Wilko Bulte]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:32:11AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote..
> In message: <6ff30abd04102008163115a32d at mail.gmail.com>
>             jamie rishaw at google mail <mitigator at 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?

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org