Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Since Most Everythings's right with SCO Can we make it smaller? Message-ID: <3822@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 1 May 91 03:26:02 GMT References: <7395@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 20 In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: | > Seems | > a fairly simple and economical solution. Even at 1-2Mb, kernels remain | > significantly smaller than most applications. | | What are you RUNNING? The biggest things I run are O(100K). You can run GNUemacs under MOTIF without paging in 32MB per user... Perhaps it's stuff like that. Actually I bet the compiler takes more than your 100k, but I'd bet I can run hours at a time without getting a process over a single MB. I'm unhappy with application bloat, too. MicroEmacs <120k even with some extensions and enhancements (and three sets of bug fixes). -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me