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Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 20:35:19 -0600 (CST)
From: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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Subject: Re: Kernel bloat 2.4 vs. 2.5
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

>     charon:~/wk/linux% size 2.4.x-cw/vmlinux bk-2.5.x/vmlinux
>        text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>     2003887  120260  191657 2315804  23561c 2.4.x-cw/vmlinux
>     2411323  267551  181004 2859878  2ba366 bk-2.5.x/vmlinux
> 
>     gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)

objdump -h vmlinux gives even more detailed information, which could be 
quite useful. E.g. the increase in data could be __kallsyms, which is a 
config option in 2.5.

--Kai