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Re: Overhead of kernel debuginfo packages
- From: Josh Stone <jistone at redhat dot com>
- To: Ivan Novick <inovick at greenplum dot com>
- Cc: "systemtap at sourceware dot org" <systemtap at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:46:25 -0700
- Subject: Re: Overhead of kernel debuginfo packages
- References: <C82B04B5.2741%inovick@greenplum.com>
On 06/01/2010 06:40 PM, Ivan Novick wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if there is any system overhead to having the the kernel
> debuginfo packages installed if systemtap is not running. Should the system
> performance be the same as without the packages assuming you do not use
> systemtap?
The only overhead of debuginfo packages is the disk space they consume.
Nothing is loaded into running processes; it is just extra data for use
by debugging tools.
Josh