On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 01:00:46AM -0700, Alan Su wrote: > just out of curiousity, if i do 'make clean ; make zImage' in > /usr/src/linux repeatedly and compare the size of > /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage, should i expect to get the same > size image? > > i'm currently burning in a computer by sticking it in such a loop, and > i'm saving the images, just to tax the filesystem a bit. this is a > partial listing of the images i've saved: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 411115 Aug 8 23:25 zImage.26
> the file sizes are pretty close, but the're not identical. of course, > i haven't actually tried any of these, but i have no reason to suspect > that they won't work. am i right, or should i conclude that this > machine has problems? thanks. The kernel image contains the date/time of compilation, and they're also compressed. It's possible that due to small changes in the data to be compressed (the date is the only thing that will change I think) the compression algorithm produces a result of different size. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org