Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!ukma!rex!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!csn!ncar!ico!rcd From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.os.mach Subject: Re: Bytes in Mach 3.0? Summary: what's wrong here? Message-ID: <1991Feb14.220240.26795@ico.isc.com> Date: 14 Feb 91 22:02:40 GMT References: <2981@fai.UUCP> <1991Feb13.170901@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO Lines: 21 webb@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Bill Webb) writes: > champlin@decwrl.dec.com (Virgil Champlin) writes: > |> I too would like to see some basic numbers for executable images of > |> the micro kernel... ... > Here's some numbers for a 386 MACH 3.0 kernel (your mileage may vary): ... > text data bss dec hex > 245728 31572 86728 364028 58dfc Either there's something here that deceives a typical, UNIXoid, naive under- standing of "size" output, or there's something very wrong. Does the text size somehow include non-kernel code? Is "size" getting fooled by some- thing? My confusion stems from the understanding that the Mach 3.0 kernel is supposed to be the "micro-kernel" version, and the belief that a 240 Kb kernel cannot reasonably be labeled "micro". Explanation/clarification, please? -- Dick Dunn rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd Boulder, CO (303)449-2870 ...But is it art?