Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Jun 2005 21:02:46 -0400 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: Easy trick to reduce kernel footprint |
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Willy Tarreau wrote: > Here's a simple trick for all those who try to squeeze their kernels to the > absolute smallest size. > > I recently discovered p7zip which comes with the LZMA compression algorithm, > which is somewhat better than gzip and bzip2 on most datasets, and I also > noticed that this tool provides support for gzip and bzip2 outputs. So I tried > to produce some of those standard outputs, and observed a slight gain compared > to the default tools. The reason is that we can change the number of passes and > the dictionnary size.
Is it any smaller than a UPX'd kernel? (I think you need the beta version. I know the upx-ucl in debian won't compress but upx-ucl-beta will if you force). I got a significant reduction using it.
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