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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