i had a look in /kern again today for the first time
in a while, and i noticed that all the files were
sorta big.

oink /kern> l
total 0
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel         438086664191 May 20 20:44 copyright
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel          47244640255 May 20 20:44 hostname
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel          21474836479 May 20 20:44 hz
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel          77309411327 May 20 20:44 loadavg
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel          25769803775 May 20 20:44 physmem
brw-r-----  1 root  operator    7,   0 Apr 12 16:16 rootdev
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel          77309411327 May 20 20:44 time
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel         489626271743 May 20 20:44 version


looks a little silly.  i seem to remember they used
to give the `real' size of what they held.

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