Re: [PATCH] Patch to Memory Subsystem ... (Needed?)

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
22 Nov 1998 23:31:10 +0100


Riley Williams <rhw@bigfoot.com> writes:
>
> Q> [me@here] ls -lGL `ldd \`which ash killall\`` 2> /dev/null | uniq
> Q> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 159488 Jul 14 06:04 /lib/ld-linux.so.2*
> Q> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 3063916 Jul 14 05:59 /lib/libc.so.6*
>
> OK, we're now in the 3.25 Meg region...so we would need at least that
> much as the minimum to use.
>
Umm, actually, libc6 is ~900 kBytes. Use "size" for program and library
space requirements, not "ls". The rest is debugging information.

Actually, since I very much doubt that either ash or killall would need all
of libc, it's a lot less.

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