On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 07:19:03AM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote: > "...ignoring [the old modules] problem ..." > > A _single_ instance of modules on amd64 occupies > 11MB > > # du -sk dest/amd64/stand/amd64/5.99.46/ > 11404 dest/amd64/stand/amd64/5.99.46/ > # > > That's nearly as much as the total size of a GENERIC kernel (about 13MB > today).
Interesting. Though as Jared and Antti already noted, there is a lot of duplication and some modules are built with debug information. A whole lot things are also only available as modules, which is kind of the whole point. A fair comparison would at least include those in the GENERIC. - Jukka.
