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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
To: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
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Subject: Re: Size of kernel modules
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On Jun 9 2007 08:08, Jon Masters wrote:
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>So I missed half of this conversation - you're saying that on a
>CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, you have such large .ko module files that depmod
>segfaults? Can I get a core dump or any further information? :-)

Just make sure your /lib/modules/<kernel> is like 300 megabytes or even
more. Then depmod will clog up quite a lot memory already. (Taking a 256 mb ram
machine for example, no swap or just very little.)


	Jan
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