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Date:      Mon, 2 Oct 95 11:44:33 EST
From:      M C Wong <mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com>
To:        julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        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:  <199510020144.AA052018276@hp.com>
In-Reply-To: <199510020059.RAA03305@ref.tfs.com>; from "Julian Elischer" at Oct 1, 95 5:59 pm

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> When you make a kernel, it finishes by doing a 'size' on it..
> e.g.
> loading kernel
> rearranging symbols
> text    data    bss     dec     hex
> 839680  57344   58580   955604  e94d4

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.

I guess one can really do the following to figure out memory usage for each
of the OPTION :

1) enable and build that component first
2) run size on all the contributing *.o and/or *.lib and sum the figure up

The only problem is that you must still always have the *.o files in the very
first place. What my initial suggestion is that when 2.1 is released the people
who prepare the dist. could have prepared such a set of info and with a simle
wrapper around the config, it shoudn't be too difficult to report an accurate
memory usage, and hence gives a good indication to people with low memory
machine that what they really want for what they have.

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