Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:29:56 +0530 | From | jimmy bahuleyan <> | Subject | Re: Size of kernel modules |
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Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, > [snip] > After the new kernel package had been created, I installed it. After > that, I looked into the directory /boot and was very surprised: The > initial ramdisk of the new kernel was much larger than the initrd of the > old kernel. To find out the cause for this, I investigated how > directories /lib/modules/$old and /lib/modules/$new differ. I found out > that the filenames are the same, but the size of the files differs very > much. I found a module file in the new directory that was almost five > times as large as the file with the same name in the old directory. >
sounds more like you have debug options enabled?
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