On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:12:33AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > >Overall, having the config file loaded strikes me as a waste of RAM. > > > As Larry mentioned, the kernel config file (say GENERIC) is about 10k > uncompressed. If it's bzipped or gzipped, as it is (including comments, > etc) it ends up ~4k. My kernel, is about 7500k (not far from GENERIC), > so the additional .05% is probably not noticeable by anyone. gzip is a bad idea. If You compress config, strings kernel | grep ^___ | sed -e 's/^___//' would no longer work. -- AdiosReceived on Mon Mar 26 2007 - 11:35:57 UTC
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