Re: Kernel bloat 2.4 vs. 2.5

Kai Germaschewski (kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de)
Tue, 4 Mar 2003 20:35:19 -0600 (CST)


On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> 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)

objdump -h vmlinux gives even more detailed information, which could be
quite useful. E.g. the increase in data could be __kallsyms, which is a
config option in 2.5.

--Kai

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