Re: Size of kernel modules

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On Jun 8 2007 08:40, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>> If you disable CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, things should go back to normal
>> sizes for you.
>
>grow so much compared to *which other modules*?  the ones that came
>with your distro?  if that's the case, try installing your new modules
>with
>
>  # make INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 modules_install
>
>that makes a *huge* difference in the size of the installed modules,
>as i learned when i first ran across this on my fedora core system.

Definitely. Running depmod on debug-enabled .ko files explodes in a segfault
after depmod allocates more and more and more memory (exhausting both 
my ram and swap).


	Jan
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