From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jan 23 13:26:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from felch.internot (d2-u30.acld.clear.net.nz [203.97.48.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B8737B698 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:25:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from clear.net.nz (felch [10.0.0.1]) by felch.internot (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0NLPoG55532; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:25:50 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jamiew@clear.net.nz) Message-ID: <3A6DF6DE.FF2B279F@clear.net.nz> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:25:50 +1300 From: Jamie Walker Organization: A Touch of Evil X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Lutz Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is the FreeBSD kernel so much bigger than the Linux kernel? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Benjamin Lutz wrote: > 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? The Linux kernel is compressed on disk. I suspect the FreeBSD kernel may not be. -- Email: jamiew@clear.net.nz ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message