>i am reading a document on unix and it was talking about kernels, and it
>shows this kernel from their system:
>
> -rwxr----- 1 root 1558734 Sep 24 1992 /vmunix
>
>isn't that a bit big for a kernel? i've never seen a linux kernel over
>600kb... mine is:
>
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 437121 Apr 9 16:41 vmlinuz-2.2.5
>
>about 420k... =/
>
> - mike
>
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An image named vmlinuz is a compressed kernel image. I believe vmlinux is
the uncompressed version. As to how big an uncompressed kernel can be I'm
not too sure. I know on my system I recently built a kernel for version
2.2.5 and it is about 950k. That's not even as big but I have made almost
evering modules and not built into the kernel. Hope that helps.
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