From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 6 18:59: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CC1637B423 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 18:58:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA49260; Mon, 7 May 2001 03:58:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Aman Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" , "Sandeep (ROCK MAN)" , Jaswinder Singh Kohli Subject: Re: squeeze freeBSDs' kernel size References: <3AF50686.F09BBDD5@runbox.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 07 May 2001 03:58:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3AF50686.F09BBDD5@runbox.com> Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Aman writes: > kldstat shows the kernel as a loaded module. > does it mean the kernel after getting in the core is resident to it's > complete physical size. Kldstat will tell you exactly how much space the kernel text (i.e. actual code) is taking up. As to memory used for kernel data, try 'vmstat -m'. > my question is, does the pagedaemon carry out any sort of paging or > segmentation on the kernel and it's loadable modules though the latter > seems necessary. No. > how much size can be really squeezed out of the kernel Ask the freebsd-small mailing list. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message