Yes thank you. So it appears that the kernel rpm includes config-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4, which mismatch the compilation options and therefore the compiled kernel binaries in the rpm.. Isn't it? # grep DEBUG_INFO /boot/config-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y ----- Original Message ----- From: Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.i586.rpm Date: Wednesday 07 December 2005 12:05 >Am Mittwoch, den 07.12.2005, 11:43 +0500 schrieb Sergey: >> The kernel coming with Fedora Core 4 ogirinally has "small" modules, for >> example, >> /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/fs/nfs/nfs.ko has the size of 261304 >> bytes, or 260 K. >> If I take kernel sources from kernel.org, and use the same config as the >> kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 was built, the the same module nfs.ko become to >> 2414088 bytes, or 2.5 M. >> >> The same way *all* other modules grow up in size up to 10 times! >> >> Why is that? > >Turn off debugging in the kernel config and everything should be normal >again. > >CU >thl
