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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: Preach it (was Some recent changes to GENERIC)
Cc: jonny@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br
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>Anyway, pmap.o was just one of the biggest single files (it's about 14
>KB now), but the surprising effect of looking at the size figures is
>that the size is really summed up of numerous not-so-large files,
>where you wouldn't even get the idea that it will get up to 400 KB
>when looking at their sizes.

I get the same feeling looking at kernel profiles.  There are usually
_lots_ of modules each taking up 0.5%-2% and nothing that can be
optimized easily.  This is partly because all the high spots have
already been optimized and partly because there are a lot of layers.

Bruce