From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 1 18:44:42 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA09878 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 18:44:42 -0700 Received: from hp.com (hp.com [15.255.152.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA09873 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 18:44:40 -0700 Received: from hpautobo.aus.hp.com by hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA052018276; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 18:44:38 -0700 Message-Id: <199510020144.AA052018276@hp.com> Received: by hpautobo.aus.hp.com (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA210008273; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 11:44:33 +1000 From: M C Wong Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 95 11:44:33 EST Cc: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com, freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510020059.RAA03305@ref.tfs.com>; from "Julian Elischer" at Oct 1, 95 5:59 pm Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > When you make a kernel, it finishes by doing a 'size' on it.. > e.g. > loading kernel > rearranging symbols > text data bss dec hex > 839680 57344 58580 955604 e94d4 Yes, this is what I did. I was trying to say that, there is no finer resolution on the memory allocated for use for each of the OPTION in the kernel. I guess one can really do the following to figure out memory usage for each of the OPTION : 1) enable and build that component first 2) run size on all the contributing *.o and/or *.lib and sum the figure up The only problem is that you must still always have the *.o files in the very first place. What my initial suggestion is that when 2.1 is released the people who prepare the dist. could have prepared such a set of info and with a simle wrapper around the config, it shoudn't be too difficult to report an accurate memory usage, and hence gives a good indication to people with low memory machine that what they really want for what they have. - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ M.C Wong Email: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com Australian Telecom Operation Voice: +61 3 272 8058 Hewlett-Packard Australia Ltd Fax: +61 3 898 9257 31 Joseph St, Blackburn 3130, Australia OS: FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 http://www-ato.aus.hp.com/~mcw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMG9D+kmThh0X7Um5AQGlrQP/TbnlXw0bbBlKxT3DsPY+fkSFlUsFm30l GwzirGlGzcIPP/ZEgmfvob7wPFfbDcd2Hh4AITOSfz53wLZMekvaIbEFIjviDGw/ 3WDwYc+iu09lbdLaPJF/k/dHajhv4P5b6aPHhLnZjdYTE9LrJBehREfKOwI3wJ5R Y165J9SvEmc= =/tkN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----