From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com
Subject: Re: Easy trick to reduce kernel footprint
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 13:43:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050606114342.GA15757@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050606110743.GA23107@animx.eu.org>
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:07:43AM -0400, Wakko Warner wrote:
> My initramfs is passed via initrd so that I can change any aspect of it with
> out recompiling the kernel (or maybe i could use a better understanding of
> initramfs) I compared bzImage to bupxImage and the savings I got was around
> 50kb difference IIRC.
With what algo and what kernel size ?
With the close-source upx-1.93 linked with the NRV compression, I often
observe an average 15-20% gain on the bzImage size if it does not embed
an initramfs. I remember that the UCL library was not as good as the NRV,
so I've stopped using it a long time ago.
Regards,
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-06 11:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-05 22:35 Easy trick to reduce kernel footprint Willy Tarreau
2005-06-05 23:41 ` Christian Leber
2005-06-06 1:02 ` Wakko Warner
2005-06-06 4:11 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-06-06 11:07 ` Wakko Warner
2005-06-06 11:43 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2005-06-06 20:16 ` Wakko Warner
2005-06-06 1:10 ` Christian Leber
2005-06-06 7:47 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-06 5:55 ` Oliver Leitner
2005-06-06 8:19 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-06-06 9:46 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-06 8:31 ` Christian Leber
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