Hello,

I've got 2 nearly identical servers with kernels compiled from the same
config, yet their initrd files drastically differ in size:

ServerA:
1045276 Sep 9 21:30 initrd-2.6.15.4.img-HT
1053495 May 11 2005 initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
1041351 May 11 2005 initrd-2.6.9-1.667smp.img

ServerB:
504485 Sep 9 21:29 initrd-2.6.15.4.img-HT
504107 Apr 11 2005 initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
493803 Apr 11 2005 initrd-2.6.9-1.667smp.img


Would anyone have any ideas what could cause this?

More importantly, does this have any effect on kernel performance?
(I skimmed
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesy...ml/initrd.html and
think that the answer is "no", but I'm like to double-check that.)

Thanks!