Coincidently I just logged in to write the misc list about relinking on boot. Is it possible to disable it? What about just relinking on the first boot after install? So then every kernel image is different but not re-randomized each boot! There are some low memory / slow CPU embedded systems like Alix / Soekris where the benefit, in my opinion, of re-linking every single boot is not worth the cost. That said granted these systems should not be rebooted frequently anyway once in production during normal use. I had a soekris recently that performed well for the task I needed it for but that I chose to install OpenBSD version 5.8 on...because I did not want to put up with the relinking...I would have rather used 6.2...would it be possible to give users a "switch" to turn off relinking if they want without recompiling the kernel...please forgive my ignorance (or flame away...) if this already exists.
Thanks. On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:16 AM, Darren Tucker <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19 April 2018 at 16:52, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote: >> This is a fresh upgrade of current/i386 on an ALIX 2D3. >> Upon start, kernel relinking fails, with relink.log saying: > > Do you have any swap configured? Relinking takes a reasonable amount > of ram and the ALIX doesn't have a lot. > > -- > Darren Tucker (dtucker at dtucker.net) > GPG key 11EAA6FA / A86E 3E07 5B19 5880 E860 37F4 9357 ECEF 11EA A6FA (new) > Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience > usually comes from bad judgement. >
