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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Kernel Definition
Message-ID: <4904@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 6 Jun 91 11:44:26 GMT
References: <1423@necis.UUCP> <1991May23.170918.11612@sequent.com> <4814@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1991Jun5.162705.3325@unislc.uucp>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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In article <1991Jun5.162705.3325@unislc.uucp> scl@unislc.uucp (Sean Landis) writes:
>Do you mean: size /unix?  I rarely see a unix *image* less than 2.5 Mb.  Of
>course, it all depends what you're running and how you tune.  For example,
>one the system I use every day, the buffer cache alone is 2.5 Mb.

People keep saying to me "what about the buffer cache", but we were
discussing whether the kernel was so large that it should be paged.
Paging the buffer cache is a rather strange idea, to say the least.

-- Richard
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