From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 1 23:48:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mentisworks.com (ro03-24-29-246-167.ce.mediaone.net [24.29.246.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB7815166 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 23:45:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nathank@mentisworks.com) Received: from [192.168.245.111] (HELO mentisworks.com) by mentisworks.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.1) with ESMTP id 50510 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 02 Oct 1999 01:47:26 -0500 Message-ID: <37F5AA7D.5E9FF2CE@mentisworks.com> Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 01:47:25 -0500 From: Nathan Kinsman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en,de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Huge Binaries.. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer wrote: > > Has anyone looked at netscape Communicator 4.7 for FreeBSD??? > > I just installed it. > the binary is 13234176 bytes long!! > yes folks, that's 13 MB! Not sure if anyone has tried this, but I run the BSDI version of 4.7. I've been running BSDI versions of Netscape for some time now without problems. The binary size for BSDI version of 4.7 is only 10711040 bytes long, which is significantly smaller then Linux or FreeBSD 2.2 versions. Also comparing Linux 4.7 to BSDI 4.7 in top, Linux reads 20404K displaying start copyright notice, BSDI version uses 14788K. Not sure what the additional memory requirements of use BSDI emulation are, but I can notice the speed difference between Linux and BSDI versions due to less paging. - Nathan Kinsman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message