Re: real kernel bloat

William E. Roadcap (roadcapw@cfw.com)
Thu, 27 Jun 1996 06:27:08 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 27 Jun 1996, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 9388376 Apr 26 12:10 vmunix.old
> > >
> > > Now that's big!
> >
> > And not relevant. Some of us have enough of a clue to compile the
> > kernel with the "-x" ldflag.
>
> Or type "size vmunix" which is much more informative. It doesnt show how
> much memory the firmware takes though but it does show some data/bss
> indications.
>
> Alan
>

For what it's worth....

/disk2/home/roadcapw> size /vmunix
text data bss dec hex
2777744 403104 563696 3744544 392320

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