21 Jan
2018
21 Jan
'18
8:08 a.m.
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.