Since Most Everythings's right with SCO Can we make it smaller?

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.ferranti.com
Thu May 2 03:25:51 AEST 1991


In article <3822 at sixhub.UUCP> davidsen at sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
> In article <TIZAOGB at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> | > Seems
> | > a fairly simple and economical solution.  Even at 1-2Mb, kernels remain
> | > significantly smaller than most applications.

> | What are you RUNNING? The biggest things I run are O(100K).

>   You can run GNUemacs under MOTIF without paging in 32MB per user... 
> Perhaps it's stuff like that. Actually I bet the compiler takes more
> than your 100k, but I'd bet I can run hours at a time without getting a
> process over a single MB.

-rwx--x--x   1 bin      bin        21064 Sep  1  1987 /bin/cc
-rwx--x--x   1 bin      bin        31785 Sep  1  1987 /lib/p0
-rwx--x--x   1 bin      bin        67345 Sep  1  1987 /lib/p1
-rwx--x--x   1 bin      bin       109703 Sep  1  1987 /lib/p2
-rwx--x--x   1 bin      bin        65711 Sep  1  1987 /lib/p3

/bin/cc: 15056 + 5818 + 2402 = 23276 = 0x5aec
/lib/p0: 25184 + 6410 + 9606 = 41200 = 0xa0f0
/lib/p1: 51864 + 15290 + 8240 = 75394 = 0x12682
/lib/p2: 68657 + 40792 + 4978 = 114427 = 0x1befb
/lib/p3: 54872 + 10648 + 6040 = 71560 = 0x11788

but then...

-rw-------   1 sysinfo  bin       239874 Apr 15 20:33 /xenix
/xenix: 192411 + 19072 + 45786 = 257269 = 0x3ecf5

And that's with OpenNET support.
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