On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 2:33 PM Hans de Goede <hdego...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > Adding -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections to defaults can help > considerably in producing smaller binaries, and is not the default. > > > Linking with -Wl,--gc-sections helps a lot and is not the default > > > > These OTOH are interesting I know that e.g. uboot combines these and > it helps a lot to get smaller binaries, > > and this should help with RAM size too, since if a page of a binary > contains mostly unused things and 1 symbol > > which is actually used it will still get paged in. > > > > Can you perhaps start a new devel list thread about just this ? > Maybe with some binary size numbers for > > some apps / libs build with and without these options? > > > > > > It's pretty well documented in various articles, e.g.: > > https://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Reducing_Executable_Size > > It also covers how much difference -Os can make. > > Interesting, thank you for that link. > > > > > Extensive stripping seems to already be the default > (--strip-unneeded, removal of .comment and .note sections) > > > > > > 2) Runtime condiguration > > > Default stack size is 8192 (ulimit -s). This unnecessarily eats a > considerably amount of memory. I have yet to see anything that actually > experiences problems with 1M. > > > > Actually ulimit -s is the *maximum* stack size, I'm pretty sure the > stack will start much smaller and > > grow dynamically. So changing this is not saving any RAM and it will > makes apps which do have high > > stack usage crash when they hit the new lower limit. > > > > > > Either way, it makes a noticeable difference to memory consumption on a > very memory constrained system without any other obvious adverse effects. > > Interesting unless I'm reading the manpage wrong, "ulimit -s" sets the > maximum stack-size. > Maybe that also influences the initial sizing of the stack ? > I believe it does. Or at least that is the only explanation I can come up with for the observation. > > Can someone who knows more about this shed some light on this? Is there a > way to go with > a smaller initial stack-size without changing the maximum size? > It may be simpler to approach the question from the other side, i.e. is there anything that actually ever needs more than 1MB of stack space? If there is, I haven't seen it in the decade since I've been using this tweak with various Fedora derived distributions.
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