Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

On Tuesday 29 December 2009 19:14:39 Dave Witbrodt wrote:
> >> Just out of curiosity, what's the size of your kernel image file?  I
> >> also use lilo and no initrd.  I'm using 2.6.31.1 with Lenny and have not
> >> run into any boot problems yet.
> >
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12781374 Oct 29 18:11 /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.31-
> > davidb_2.6.31-davidb-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12785544 Nov 16 22:14 /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.31-
> > davidb-svn14611_2.6.31-davidb-svn14611-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12870190 Oct 28 19:29
> > /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.31-rt-
> > davidb_2.6.31-rt-davidb-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13104356 Dec 27 21:23
> > /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.32.1- davidb_2.6.32-davidb-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13109468 Dec 28 19:41 /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.32-
> > davidb_2.6.32-davidb-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
> >
> > The last one is the 2.6.32.3 image. Simply note the progression :-)
> > The 2.6.31.1 (first one) is much much smaller.
> 
> You were not asked for the size of the DEB files, but for the size of
> the kernel binary image.  Like so:

Same progression.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1939120 Nov 16 22:10 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-davidb-
svn14611
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1956720 Oct 28 19:26 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-rt-davidb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1992432 Dec  8 22:27 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-davidb


These ALL boot. The 2.6.32 above is 2.6.32.1

Reinstalling the 2.6.32.3 deb gives me:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1992752 Dec 28 19:38 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-davidb

A relatively small increase but increase never-the-less. Enough to tip it 
over.