A really "big" kernel (in a dead weight)

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 12:00:58PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:20:20PM -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > I tried to install kernel-2.6.29-0.12.rc0.git7.fc11.x86_64.
...
> > It is true that the same operation performed on
> > lib/modules/2.6.29-0.9.rc0.git4.fc11.x86_64 reduces that from 188M
> > to 78M,
> 
> Hitting up fedora-kernel-list would be helpful. ;-)

Another one to subscribe?  Bother ....
I guess that I will drop something into bugzilla.

> Any idea which revision this was introduced in? If not, I'll start
> poking koji.

As I said: 
kernel-2.6.29-0.12.rc0.git7.fc11.x86_64 balooned to over 1 gig of a
disk space;
kernel-2.6.29-0.9.rc0.git4.fc11.x86_64 took 188M for its modules,
and it turns out after a closer look that this is  still a lot of
extra null bytes, but more in line to what we were seeing before.

AFAIK these are two subsequent rawhide kernels.  These kernels were
for a while about of a kernel-2.6.29-0.9.rc0.git4.fc11 size but I
thought that this is all debugging info and only started checking
when hit with 0.12.rc0.git7.fc11 monster.

   Michal