On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Kamil Monticolo wrote:
> > The OpenBSD kernel is a bit over 5MB. I assume that gets loaded into memory
> > and is not swappable, giving me 43MB left, which isn't a lot.
>
> You can turn off ipv6, altq if not needed, and of course lots of hardware
> that you don't need also. For example I have a 2 x smaller kernel that
> GENERIC on my laptop:
> $ uname -a
> OpenBSD squirrel 4.1 BIRKOFF#0 i386
> $ ls -lh /bsd{,.orig}
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2.9M Mar 9 00:39 /bsd
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5.8M Feb 22 13:32 /bsd.orig
>
> You may also stripe nearly all of your libraries, for example:
>
> # ls -lhS /usr/lib/libcrypto*a
> -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 11.7M Mar 22 13:53 /usr/lib/libcrypto_pic.a
> -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 11.6M Mar 22 13:53 /usr/lib/libcrypto_p.a
> -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 11.5M Mar 22 13:53 /usr/lib/libcrypto.a
> # strip -s /usr/lib/libcrypto*a
> # ls -lhS /usr/lib/libcrypto*a
> -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 909K Mar 22 13:53 /usr/lib/libcrypto_pic.a
> -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 865K Mar 22 13:53 /usr/lib/libcrypto_p.a
> -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 835K Mar 22 13:53 /usr/lib/libcrypto.a
>
> looks fine? Hope this helps.
>
> Kamil Monticolo aka birkoff
It saves even more space if you do
alias strip=rm
-Otto
