Re: Size of kernel modules

From: Jon Masters
Date: Sat Jun 09 2007 - 12:15:09 EST


On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 15:59 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jun 9 2007 08:08, Jon Masters wrote:
> >
> >So I missed half of this conversation - you're saying that on a
> >CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, you have such large .ko module files that depmod
> >segfaults? Can I get a core dump or any further information? :-)
>
> Just make sure your /lib/modules/<kernel> is like 300 megabytes or even
> more. Then depmod will clog up quite a lot memory already. (Taking a 256 mb ram
> machine for example, no swap or just very little.)

I'll go take a look at that.

Jon.


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