Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754704AbZCVMyR (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:54:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753292AbZCVMx7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:53:59 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:51302 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751669AbZCVMx7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:53:59 -0400 Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:53:20 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: Andrew Morton , Roland McGrath , Steven Rostedt , utrace-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] utrace-based ftrace "process" engine, v2 Message-ID: <20090322125320.GA14171@elte.hu> References: <20090321014244.9ADF1FC3AB@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20090321074301.GA19384@elte.hu> <20090321013912.ed6039c9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090321091235.GA29678@elte.hu> <20090321041954.72b99e69.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090321115141.GA3566@redhat.com> <20090321050422.d1d99eec.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090321154501.GA2707@elte.hu> <20090321214852.GA5262@redhat.com> <20090322120811.GD19826@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090322120811.GD19826@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 822 Lines: 24 * Ingo Molnar wrote: > Total download size: 329 M > > That size of a _compressed_ debuginfo kernel package is obscene. > We can fit 4 years of full Linux kernel Git history into that size > - 60,000+ commits, full metadata and full 20 million lines of code > flux included! > > Uncompressed it blows up to gigabytes of on-disk data. > > And this download has to be repeated for _every_ minor kernel > upgrade. Have to correct my memories about how many commits the kernel repo has: 132,019 commits. That massive history fits into 298 MB. (!) Ingo -- 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/