Subject: Re: Severe and increasing bloat of even "tiny" kernels
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/04/2000 16:10:43
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 10:27:26PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> I am enclosing the config file for a machine of mine which has hardware
> suitable for running 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5.
>
> Essentially the *same* configuration for 1.3.3 was 587K. For 1.4.2 it's
> 690K (a 18% increase in size). For 1.5_ALPHA it's 839K (a 22% increase).
Did you try to determine the bloat by modules (e.g. drivers, vm vs uvm, etc) ?
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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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