In Message <9601152217.AA19243@vas.viewlogic.com> ,
   greywolf@defender.VAS.viewlogic.com (James Graham - Systems Anarchist) wrote:

=>#define AUTHOR "Chris_G_Demetriou@niagara.nectar.cs.cmu.edu (Chris_G_Demetrio
u@niagara.nectar.cs.cmu.edu)"
=>
=>/*
=> * > /*
=> * >  * > ...so tossing in /proc is negligible.
=> * >  * 
=> * >  * Without even ATTEMPTING to state the size of adding procfs, where do
=> * >  * you come off stating _that_?
=> * >  * 
=> * > 
=> * > Comparatively, it's negligible.  It's still taking up less memory than
=> * > SunOS does.  You really can't argue with that. :-)
=> * 
=> * According to this logic, i should feel free to add a 5MB array of
=> * nothing to the NetBSD/Alpha kernel, because if I did it would still be
=> * smaller than the OSF/1 kernel i normally run on my workstation.
=> * 
=> * Of course, compared to say, some real-time kernels, the NetBSD kernel
=> * is huge...
=> * 
=>
=>More info:
=>
=>After configuring kernels which were IDENTICAL except for procfs,
=>the 'size' output from the kernel showed:
=>
=>819168  63952   78560   961680  eac90   netbsd		# no procfs
=>819168  64832   78584   962584  eb018   /netbsd		# procfs
=>
=>And on disk:
=>
=>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  bin  958261 Jan 12 19:05 netbsd	# no procfs
=>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  bin  960266 Jan 12 18:01 /netbsd	# procfs
=>

On i386:

Without PROCFS:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  735152 Jan 15 22:14 /netbsd*

text	data	bss	dec	hex
622592	36864	73396	732852	b2eb4

With PROCFS:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  744469 Jan 16 09:33 netbsd*

text	data	bss	dec	hex
630784	36864	74276	741924	b5224


                                      Gary D. Duzan
                         Humble Practitioner of the Computer Arts