On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:35:03AM +0000, zorkdork wrote:
> i wanna get an idea of the average sizes of the kernel image sizes that we all
> use....my bzImage with everything needed compiled in and not modularized is at
> wait let me check...is 1.1mb...pretty hefty...i wanna know how the others are
> doing
>
What have you got? This 2.4.5 workstation I'm using now has got a
672,205 byte image. My laptop has got a 596,625 byte 2.4.8 kernel.
The default 2.4.2 kernel installed by Red Hat 7.1 (and personally I
think the Red Hat kernels are horrendously bloated) is 781,806 bytes.
But then again, I try to go for modules wherever I can get away with
them; saves a fair bit of memory. How often do I actually use floppy
disks? Almost never, but I occasionally need to, so I compile that as
a module. How often do I need to read the Windows 98 partition on the
dual-boot machines I own? Seldom, so VFAT and MS-DOS file system
support go into a module. How often do I use my Zip drive? Seldom
too, so it goes into a module, and as it's the only SCSI device I own
at the moment, SCSI support also goes into a module. My CD-ROM? Once
in a blue moon, so once again, into a module it goes. All told the
modules I've mentioned already add up to some 250K, and if you
compiled that into the kernel, that's 250K you're never going to see
again, because the kernel never gets swapped out, and 250K that is 99%
of the time dead weight because you only occasionally use it.
Just my two centavos worth...
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