stuff about proc (was: [something. blame elm])

From: david parsons (orc@pell.portland.or.us)
Date: Sun Jan 09 2000 - 18:35:05 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > >For embedded systems I can see it is an issue, /proc is simply too large
> > >to include just for a few constants.
> >
> > Just how large IS proc, anyway, and is this even noticable in the
> > steadily increasing size of the kernel?
>
> Including the dentry tree for a small configuration and all the device proc
> code about 70-80K last time I measured it

     And how big would a text-id'ed sysctl() be in relation to this?
     (Is the 70-80k the core size or the size in the image?)

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