> why? they might sound monotonous after a while, but it is exactly the 
> same for someone of the opposite point of view to say 'im pretty sick of 
> these continual additions (or proposed additions) of fluff into the 
> kernel' and it would be exactly the same assertion.
exactly.

once i've asked why kernel RSS is over 3.5MB on my notebook with 900kB
kernel and 256kB disk buffers and got in fact no answer.

there are lot of bloats now which should be an OPTION and now is not even
documented.