Ahh, thank goodness. That is an easy problem to solve. (I HAVE built 
NetBSD kernels before, on my trusty PPC Mac. Easier and more fun than 
building Linux kernels! ;) )

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, David Laight wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:43:48AM -0700, J. Blank - NetBSD Mailing Lists wrote:
> > I have a nice ThinkPad 360CE (I think). I am a relative newbie to NetBSD 
> > and I am unsure of what is eating my memory. It seems like processes 
> > with PIDs 2 through 8 (presumably spawned by init?) are, together, 
> > gobbling 12MB of my 20MB of RAM (WTF???).
> > 
> > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ   RSS TT STAT STARTED    TIME COMMAND
> > root   0  0.0 63.8   0 12828 ?? DKs   4:08PM 0:00.02 [swapper]
> 
> That size is the total kernel....
> 
> You probably want to build a smaller one.
> 
> 	David
> 
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