Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!spdcc!dyer From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Size of kernels Message-ID: <1843@spdcc.COM> Date: 12 Sep 88 17:23:54 GMT References: Reply-To: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA Lines: 14 In article jl42+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jay Mathew Libove) writes: >That person claimed SCO Xenix 2.2.1. I use SCO Xenix 2.2.1. My system >has 2 megabytes of memory, and 1400K is available as my maximum user >process size. >So, why is my kernel fully twice the size of his? A number of data structures, in particular disk buffers, are sized dynamically at boot time depending on the amount of physical memory installed. This is a Feature. -- Steve Dyer dyer@harvard.harvard.edu dyer@spdcc.COM aka {harvard,husc6,linus,ima,bbn,m2c,mipseast}!spdcc!dyer