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

[M. Warner Losh]

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

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