Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Jun 2007 09:55:52 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | 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).
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