Re: kernel image size...
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 01:00:46AM -0700, Alan Su wrote:
> just out of curiousity, if i do 'make clean ; make zImage' in
> /usr/src/linux repeatedly and compare the size of
> /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage, should i expect to get the same
> size image?
>
> i'm currently burning in a computer by sticking it in such a loop, and
> i'm saving the images, just to tax the filesystem a bit. this is a
> partial listing of the images i've saved:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 411115 Aug 8 23:25 zImage.26
> the file sizes are pretty close, but the're not identical. of course,
> i haven't actually tried any of these, but i have no reason to suspect
> that they won't work. am i right, or should i conclude that this
> machine has problems? thanks.
The kernel image contains the date/time of compilation, and they're
also compressed. It's possible that due to small changes in the
data to be compressed (the date is the only thing that will change I think)
the compression algorithm produces a result of different size.
Hamish
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