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From: neal@mnopltd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Kernel Sizes (was Re: Since Most Everythings's right... )
Message-ID: <217@mnopltd.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 91 15:25:07 GMT
Reply-To: gatech!stiatl!mnopltd!neal
Organization: MNOP Ltd., Atlanta, Ga.
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->In article <545@jahangir.UUCP> marc@jahangir.UUCP (Marc Rossner) writes:
->>In article <204@mnopltd.UUCP>, neal@mnopltd.UUCP writes:
->>> I noticed that the Xenix 2.3.2 kernel is about 1000K.   The SCO Unix
->>> kernel is about 2000K.   
->
->>I thought that the advantage of Xenix was that it was supposed to be tiny.
->>I also thought that I had a rather massive kernel on my ISC 2.2.  My
->>kernel is 750K.  Are you sure you have your numbers right?
->
->My ISC 1.0.6 MultiBus kernel is 573K. Sounds like it's growing
->by leaps and bounds....
->
->Has anyone surveyed kernel sizes, or graphed the size since UNIX 
->was released? Might me some interesting data in there....
->
->Gary
->
Original poster back here again......

Whoaha!  Lets try to calibrate our terms here.  When I said 1000k, I meant
that was how much memory it took loaded.   (from log in /usr/adm/messages)
The actual kernel FILE is 408k.   If you do a "size xenix"  you get:

261902 + 112720 + 29520 = 404142 = 0x62aae

The 1000k is once it loads and mallocs and otherwise settles itself into
operation.   Now which number were you specifying for ISC?

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