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Date:      Mon, 2 Oct 1995 11:15:23 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com (M C Wong)
Cc:        julian@ref.tfs.com, mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com, freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation.
Message-ID:  <199510021815.LAA22063@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199510020144.AA052018276@hp.com> from "M C Wong" at Oct 2, 95 11:44:33 am

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> Yes, this is what I did. I was trying to say that, there is no finer 
> resolution on the memory allocated for use for each of the OPTION in the
> kernel.

No, there is not.

As more and more structures become dynamically allocated (and therefore
dynamically reconfigurable), the static code and data sizes will fall
further and further below the actual usage at runtime.

This is already a problem with any runtime allocations that take place,
and since they take place conditionally, there is really no way to check
what their final values will be, only what they *may* be.  Even then, it
will require going through the kernel looking for the hard limits on all
memory allocations.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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