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Re: Anyone tried SystemTap with the latest RHEL5 Beta refresh

Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:

Hi -

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:41:56AM -0800, David Wilder wrote:



[...] Why not package the debuginfo "vmlinux" with the kernel rpm?
[...] ure this will increase the size of the kernel package by
about 40Meg, but the full debug info package is closer to 150Meg.



Don't forget about debug information for the modules.  For a random
FC5 kernel, that adds another 300MB (uncompressed).

- FChE


Frank, do you agree that stap is still useful without the debug info modules?

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David Wilder
IBM Linux Technology Center
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