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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX 3.1 Kernel Size
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Date: 8 Feb 91 13:14:31 GMT
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In article <147@edi386.UUCP> eddjp@edi386.UUCP ( Dewey Paciaffi ) writes:
>I've run the 'size' command on /unix, and it responds that my kernel 
>is 20.5 MB in size. I understand that the kernel pages, but was just curious
>to know if this number is actually correct?

Yes, it is "correct", however, it is a paging kernel and much of that
space is large tables that are unused until you need them.  It doesn't
mean the same thing it does with any other UNIX-derivative.
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