17 Mar
2010
17 Mar
'10
6:13 p.m.
I compile my own vanilla kernels for testing and I noticed that the initrd of those kernels is huge as you will see in a moment[1]. The .config is a copy of Fedora's with only two modifications (append version and CPU family). The method of compiling is a classic make oldconfig; make all; make modules_install; make install. Why is my initrd so big? Thanks.
[1] ls -alh /boot | grep initr -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11M 2010-03-17 14:18 initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12M 2010-03-17 15:34 initramfs-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94M 2010-03-17 19:36 initramfs-2.6.34-rc1-00997-ga3d3203.img