Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Re: Binaries not strippped?

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Tue, August 30, 2005 10:01, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
> Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>
>
>> We could do a strip-all on the binaries, but not on the libraries.
>>
>
> Why?! Just do a simple "strip" on everything, including .so libraries.
> Decent version of strip are smart enough to leave all vital entries
> untouched. As I wrote in the first post, the libc binary takes ~ 11 MB
> instead of the ~ 1 MB when stripped. The extra unused 10-MB bloat eats 10
> MB of RAM for each JAIL'ed service, so on a machine with 64MB you
> can't run more than 2 such services. With libc stripped you could have ~
> 20.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Evgeny
>
>
> PS. Unstripped libc is a sparse file, with only about half of its size
> actually occupying the rootfs space. However, shmfs (where /jail resides)
> doesn't support sparse files, so after copying over there, it takes the
> whole 11 MB.

I will start a test compile and use strip-all, then we'll know if it works
or not.
The information I have about the strip-all and libraries is from the LFS
book, maybe they're wrong.

I let you know about the results.

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
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