Re: 'Final' Kernel Size 'Guestimate'

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Pressey wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:52:23 +0800
> Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
*question about kernel size..*

> Note that this 22M is only disk space - the debug information is
> stripped when the kernel is loaded into memory (and when copied to
> kernel.old).  The stripped kernel is more like 4M.  For more info see:
>
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2004-10/msg00136.html
>
> -Chris

Chris - exactly what was wanted.

IOW - absent debug, approximately 3MB in
October 2004, approximately 4MB as of
March of 2005, or not significantly different
from a FreeBSD 4.X GENERIC kernel size.

QED

Thanks,

Bill