Re: Kernel bloat 2.4 vs. 2.5

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 21:32:08 EST


Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 20:59, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
> > I can't see it helping *that* much, for me I have:
> >
> > charon:~/wk/linux% size 2.4.x-cw/vmlinux bk-2.5.x/vmlinux
> > text data bss dec hex filename
> > 2003887 120260 191657 2315804 23561c 2.4.x-cw/vmlinux
> > 2411323 267551 181004 2859878 2ba366 bk-2.5.x/vmlinux
> >
> > gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)
>
> Ugh look at that increase in data. Is this SMP?
>

well kallsyms is worth 150k.

Do `strings vmlinux' and take a look at it all.
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