From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jan 23 13:17:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ggaweb.ch (mail.ggaweb.ch [62.2.33.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD4137B402 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:17:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from merlin (client87-179.hispeed.ch [62.2.87.179]) by mail.ggaweb.ch (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA08477; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:17:25 +0100 From: "Benjamin Lutz" To: Cc: "Benjamin Lutz" Subject: Why is the FreeBSD kernel so much bigger than the Linux kernel? Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:17:09 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Talking with a few friends we suddenly noticed that the FreeBSD kernel is lots bigger (about 3 times) than the Linux kernel - how so? Also, what average kernel size do you guys have? My FreeBSD box is configured as gateway/NATD/firewall, other than that there are not too many bells and whistles. The resulting kernel is a whopping 1'932'208 bytes. Is there something obvious I did not see? Also... how do I display the total size of all files in a single directory? Have a lot of fun, Ben PS: Dont forget to CC your answers to benlutz@datacomm.ch . thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message