re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/amd64/conf

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 05:13:58PM +0100, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> > 2. I don't want tons of modules which I'll never need installed
> >    into my root file system. As it was common in good old times (tm),
> >    my root filesystems are as small as possible. Now, with modules
> >    being added to the build, I have to squeeze out stuff after
> >    each update to keep some percent free space in /.
> 
> Have you measured how much modules supposedly increase the size compared to
> compiling things directly to the kernel? This seems like a rather silly point
> to me (without numbers, at least).

well, i dunno about others but i've found that the old modules
lying around tends to fill up space pretty quickly, but ignoring
that problem and looking at recent i386 builds, i see that the
MONOLITHIC kernel set is only 440kb larger than GENERIC, yet the
modules set is 3500kb.

i didn't look into why, but there's some numbers to go from.


.mrg.