Size of kernels

[Steve Dyer]

In article <gX-wbmB38k-082XJsY at andrew.cmu.edu> jl42+ at andrew.cmu.edu (Jay Mathew Libove) writes:
>That person claimed SCO Xenix 2.2.1. I use SCO Xenix 2.2.1. My system
>has 2 megabytes of memory, and 1400K is available as my maximum user
>process size.
>So, why is my kernel fully twice the size of his?

A number of data structures, in particular disk buffers, are sized dynamically
at boot time depending on the amount of physical memory installed.

This is a Feature.
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