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

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Wed Oct 20 09:40:04 PDT 2004


On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:25:56AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> 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.

Would you consider this something that we could run with in
CURRENT/STABLE and just turn off for releases?

Ceri
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