How big is your kernel?

[xdakorx]

[dak@Shuttle ~]$ du -h /boot/vmlinuz26
1.7M /boot/vmlinuz26





(I stole this topic from the Archlinux forums)

[Davy]

prieta@silver:~$ du -h /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-486
1.2M    /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-486
prieta@silver:~$

HA HA!!

mine's smaller!

wow... that's gotta be the first time i've been proud to say that.

[shadebug]

2352105 Aug 7 23:25 /boot/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r4

you know bigger is better

[nabetse]

It's not how big it is. It's how you use it!

[je_fro]

Linux speedy 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 28 01:51:49 CDT 2006 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 GNU/Linux
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9M Jul 28 02:13 bzImage-2.6.17-gentoo-r4

Linux helios 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 9 02:33:15 CDT 2006 sparc64 sun4u GNU/Linux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.1M Aug 9 02:35 vmlinux-2.6.17-gentoo-r4

[soulestream]

It's not how big it is. It's how you use it!

thats what people with the wrong size kernels say


Soule

[daYz]

thats what people with the wrong size kernels say


Soule

Hahahahaha

[nabetse]

thats what people with the wrong size kernels say

The reason that I didn't post my kernel size is NOT BECAUSE IT'S THE WRONG SIZE. It's because... um...

...um, I'll post the reason as soon as I think of it.

[Icarus]

Just made a new one on my work laptop, 1.7M with a 1.6M initramfs

Home weighs in at 2.3M and a...whoa...5.3M initramfs

[techwise]

1.5MB on my thinkpad

[dr_te_z]

Jused to tease my son when he was comparing his GSM telephone with his friend's.
I'd say: "In my time we compared to see who has the biggest, you compare to see who has the smallest..."

Never thought the same rule would apply for linux-kernels

[celticgeek]

1.4M vmlinuz.2.6.9.34.0.2.ELsmp

CentOS 4.3

And yeah, comparing for smallness seems to be the current criteria for various things.

[bburton]

$ du -h /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686
860K /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686

Compared to the 2.2 days, that's pretty big.

[pezplaya]

pezplaya@trinity /usr/src/linux $ du -sh /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
2.0M /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage


it depends a lot on if u use modules or have them built into the kernel.

you know i sense a lot of sexual innuendos... or maybe its just me and my minds in the gutter ;p

[bburton]

it depends a lot on if u use modules or have them built into the kernel.

Yes, that's definitely true. However, I remember when I used to compile purely monolithic kernels for my computer, including only the drivers for which I needed, and the output was still only around 800K (2.4 series).

This is not to say that bigger or smaller is necessarily better. I'm sure that much of the increase in size of the 2.6 series is due to more complete driver support. Although, with all other things being equal, if I had to pick a side, I would prefer smaller.