performance testing rawhide.

Frank Murphy frankly3d at gmail.com
Sun Sep 26 08:12:56 UTC 2010


On 22/09/10 18:27, Dave Jones wrote:
> There have been a bunch of requests over time to off non-debug builds
> of the rawhide kernel for people wanting to do performance regression testing etc
>
> We could do this two ways.
>
> - The notion that was put forward was to keep 'kernel' as being debug mode,
>    and add a 'kernel-nodebug'. So it's sort of the inverse of the releases.
>
> - Stop making rawhide 'debug by default', and just start shipping kernel-debug
>    for rawhide as we do for releases.

As a non-dev, the main problem with kernel-debug, is it's size
in F14 updates-testing currently it's 248mb, annd k-dbg-common 35mb?

1: Can the size be made comparable to Rawhide-kernel (switched on).
2: make a push for deltas in the case of kerrnel-debug.
3: Have a --nodebug boot up argument.

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Frank Murphy
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