quicken 2007 ungodly slow

[Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes]

Søndag 29 april 2007 21:49, skrev Dan Kegel:
> On 4/29/07, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> > p.s. I don't have kernel symbols because I haven't figured
> > out how to find vmlinux on ubuntu yet, nor does ubuntu
> > make it easy to compile one.  (vmlinuz won't do, nor do
> > I know how to uncompress it.)
>
> Several people said "Duh, just run [zcat/bzcat/gunzip/...]"
> but it seems to not be that simple:
>
> $ bzcat vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic > /dev/null
> bzcat: vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic is not a bzip2 file.
> $ zcat vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic > /dev/null
> zcat: vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic: not in gzip format
> $  file vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic
> vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic: Linux kernel x86 boot executable RO-rootFS,
> root_dev 0x6801, swap_dev 0x1, Normal VGA
>
> On the theory that maybe it's simply named vmlinuz but
> not really compressed, I tried symlinking it to vmlinux...
> oprofile was a bit happier, but couldn't read any symbols.
>
> So I guess I'll just go ask the friendly neighborhood ubuntu
> developer.  (The tech lead for google's desktop linux, which
> is just ubuntu with a g on it, sits about twenty meters from my
> desk...)
> - Dan

There is a script to decompose the kernel image, available here
http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~weixl/research/fast-mon/scripts/extract-ikconfig

If you want symbols you need System.map, though.

Regards,

Alexander N. Sørnes