Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:58:12 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is the FreeBSD kernel so much bigger than the Linux kernel? Message-ID: <20010124115812.G37060@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <NDBBKGBBKDPDNFIFCJEJEEDOCHAA.benlutz@datacomm.ch>; from benlutz@datacomm.ch on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:17:09PM %2B0100 References: <NDBBKGBBKDPDNFIFCJEJEEDOCHAA.benlutz@datacomm.ch>
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On Tuesday, 23 January 2001 at 22:17:09 +0100, 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? > > 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? I have a Linux box here: [grog@capellorosso /boot]$ ls -l /boot/vmlinux-2.2.16-22 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1621492 Aug 23 06:26 /boot/vmlinux-2.2.16-22 That's not very different. Note that a lot of hardware support in Linux is done in loadable modules, while FreeBSD has it in the kernel. > Also... how do I display the total size of all files in a single > directory? In general, not by asking two questions at once. This one should go to FreeBSD-questions. > PS: Dont forget to CC your answers to benlutz@datacomm.ch . thanks. Our convention is to group reply. Your From: line is correct, but if it wasn't, you should put in a Reply-To: header. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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