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Date:      Mon, 18 May 1998 00:02:57 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why pdp11 is cool. (WAS: SCO offers Ancient Unix...) 
Message-ID:  <199805180702.AAA07419@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 May 1998 12:32:58 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980517122617.14500A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> 

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>	Check this out:
>
>$ /sbin/dmesg
>phys mem  = 2097152
>avail mem = 1648064
>user mem  = 307200
>$ ls -l /unix
>-rwxr--r--  1 root       146289 Mar  6 20:19 /unix
>$
>
>	This is compared to:
>
>shell6: {1001} dmesg
>real memory  = 134217728 (131072K bytes)
>avail memory = 121163776 (118324K bytes)
>shell6: {1003} ls -l /kernel
>-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  8381723 Mar 27 23:26 /kernel
>shell6: {1004}

   Um, that kernel has apparantly been built with -g which will cause it to
have about 7-8MB of debugging symbols. I would guess that the real kernel
is only around 1MB in size...

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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