Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!mimsy!fnord.umiacs.umd.edu!steve From: steve@fnord.umiacs.umd.edu (Steve D. Miller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 Kernel size and Diskless Operation Message-ID: <19787@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 25 Sep 89 15:45:17 GMT References: <1544@esunix.UUCP> Sender: nobody@mimsy.UUCP Reply-To: steve@umiacs.umd.edu (Steve D. Miller) Organization: UMIACS, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 Lines: 15 If you take the DECstation /genvmunix and strip it, it goes from being 2.25MB in size down to 1.15MB in size. It seems clear that a lot of what's sucking up space is all the dbx-related cruft that's being kept around. Compiling out the DECnet code (an option for us, but not for everyone) saves another 300K off the kernel size before stripping, and I don't know how much after stripping. I don't suppose anyone has (a) tried to rebuild the kernel from sources, without -gN turned on, or (b) ported adb to the DECstations... If I get some spare time, I might try (a). -Steve Spoken: Steve Miller Domain: steve@umiacs.umd.edu UUCP: uunet!mimsy!steve Phone: +1-301-454-1808 USPS: UMIACS, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742