21 Jan
2018
21 Jan
'18
8:13 a.m.
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" <drsalists(a)gmail.com>
To:"Warner Losh" <imp(a)bsdimp.com>
Cc:"The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
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 <imp(a)bsdimp.com> 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.