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

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 07:19:03AM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> "...ignoring [the old modules] problem ..."
> 
> A _single_ instance of modules on amd64 occupies > 11MB
> 
>       # du -sk dest/amd64/stand/amd64/5.99.46/
>       11404   dest/amd64/stand/amd64/5.99.46/
>       #
> 
> That's nearly as much as the total size of a GENERIC kernel (about 13MB 
> today).

Interesting. Though as Jared and Antti already noted, there is a lot of
duplication and some modules are built with debug information. A whole lot
things are also only available as modules, which is kind of the whole point.
A fair comparison would at least include those in the GENERIC.

- Jukka.