Re: [PATCH 3/3] utrace-based ftrace "process" engine, v2

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Mar 22 2009 - 08:54:17 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Total download size: 329 M
>
> That size of a _compressed_ debuginfo kernel package is obscene.
> We can fit 4 years of full Linux kernel Git history into that size
> - 60,000+ commits, full metadata and full 20 million lines of code
> flux included!
>
> Uncompressed it blows up to gigabytes of on-disk data.
>
> And this download has to be repeated for _every_ minor kernel
> upgrade.

Have to correct my memories about how many commits the kernel repo
has: 132,019 commits. That massive history fits into 298 MB. (!)

Ingo
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