From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: scj@yaccman.com (Steve Johnson) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 18:13:55 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] Kernel Sizes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: While you're at it, I heard once that the latest GCC *manual* (>500 pp at last look) was larger than "the whole Unix distribution".  Is there any truth to that? Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Stromberg" To:"Warner Losh" Cc:"The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" Sent:Sat, 20 Jan 2018 18:08:43 -0800 Subject:Re: [TUHS] Kernel Sizes On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 10:11 AM, Warner Losh wrote: > For a presentation I'm doing this summer on FreeBSD, I thought it would be > cool to get the kernel sizes for various old flavors of Unix. I see numbers You might find http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/working-set/ interesting. It intentionally fills virtual memory, and measures how much must must be malloc'd and filled with gibberish, to cause thrashing. Subtracting that from the amount of physmem in the machine, gives a sort of measure of OS overhead. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: