From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 1 17:46:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA07924 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 17:46:40 -0700 Received: from hp.com (hp.com [15.255.152.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA07915 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 17:46:38 -0700 Received: from hpautobo.aus.hp.com by hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA032804793; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 17:46:35 -0700 Message-Id: <199510020046.AA032804793@hp.com> Received: by hpautobo.aus.hp.com (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA207134791; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 10:46:31 +1000 From: M C Wong Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org (freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 95 10:46:30 EST Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Is there any utility to estimate/calculate the amount of memory when one builds new kernel ? Apparently some of the OPTIONS in the config file are optional, and if there is some information related to all those supported OPTIONS stored in a centrally managed file, then the kernel config program can always retrieve the relevant info from the file and work out how much memory is needed to run the new kernel. The same thing can be done with installation of the system, packages etc as they are already well broken down into a set of `modules' or `components'. Currently, when I say enable/disable a particular OPTION in the kernel config file, I have no idea about how much more memory is used or saved (in the kernel). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMG82WkmThh0X7Um5AQHxpQQAn3KHOWMBqEMx5DopdYhA1UFgMWzWSV8J n3JD4grJpNXzPoSbH5nz7k9sNwArMc/As4aWeA3SqgdZuEj1DW2HJz0J7qyjWf44 nKwKDAdVie6wGVO1K3LQsFf3rL0nphMdXtHVEHJBXdtUNLauQKeNYSar6Hg3oCjp e5NrOOuEtB4= =1FZf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----