Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 11:43:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 11:43:29 -0400 Received: from pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.19.3]:57864 "EHLO pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 11:43:17 -0400 Message-Id: <200110091543.f99FhFVJ009433@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> To: root@chaos.analogic.com cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel size In-Reply-To: Message from "Richard B. Johnson" of "Tue, 09 Oct 2001 10:52:50 -0400." Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 11:43:14 -0400 From: Horst von Brand Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Richard B. Johnson" said: > On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: [...] > > strip -R .ident -R .comment -R .note > > > > is your friend. [...] > Yes! Wonderful... > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1571516 Oct 9 10:50 vmlinux > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1590692 Oct 1 13:26 vmlinux.OLD > > That got rid of some cruft. Yep. A WHOOPing 1.2% of the total. BTW, is this stuff ever being loaded into RAM with the executable kernel, discarded on boot, or what? IMHO, it would be more productive to go after savings via .init*, and perhaps bug the GCC/binutils people to merge strings... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand Usuario #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/