Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Since Most Everythings's right with SCO Can we make it smaller? Message-ID: <.N=AH+1@xds13.ferranti.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <7395@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> <3822@sixhub.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1 May 91 17:25:51 GMT In article <3822@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: > 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. -rwx--x--x 1 bin bin 21064 Sep 1 1987 /bin/cc -rwx--x--x 1 bin bin 31785 Sep 1 1987 /lib/p0 -rwx--x--x 1 bin bin 67345 Sep 1 1987 /lib/p1 -rwx--x--x 1 bin bin 109703 Sep 1 1987 /lib/p2 -rwx--x--x 1 bin bin 65711 Sep 1 1987 /lib/p3 /bin/cc: 15056 + 5818 + 2402 = 23276 = 0x5aec /lib/p0: 25184 + 6410 + 9606 = 41200 = 0xa0f0 /lib/p1: 51864 + 15290 + 8240 = 75394 = 0x12682 /lib/p2: 68657 + 40792 + 4978 = 114427 = 0x1befb /lib/p3: 54872 + 10648 + 6040 = 71560 = 0x11788 but then... -rw------- 1 sysinfo bin 239874 Apr 15 20:33 /xenix /xenix: 192411 + 19072 + 45786 = 257269 = 0x3ecf5 And that's with OpenNET support. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"