Re: real kernel bloat

David S. Miller (dm@neteng.engr.sgi.com)
Tue, 25 Jun 1996 02:52:48 -0700


Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 20:48:54 +1200 (NZST)
From: "J. Sean Connell" <ankh@canuck.gen.nz>

At work, we have a Sun SparcStation 20 with something like 196MB
RAM. Once you have the OS and X (well, OpenWindows) loaded (to
make it somewhat useful), that's gone and chewed up 48MB of the
RAM. The proxy cache chews up the rest :)

It is pretty obvious you aren't running SparcLinux yet ;-)

Later,
David S. Miller
dm@sgi.com