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Date:      Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:25:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Brian McGroarty <bvmcg@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What's the normal kernel size?
Message-ID:  <19990610162552.6700.rocketmail@web1006.mail.yahoo.com>

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I think you've still a ways to go. I've had mine down to about
700k. This is probably my smallest currently in use:

% ls -l /k*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1057260 Jun  6 13:30 /kernel
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2329748 May 17 23:05 /kernel.GENERIC
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1068419 Jun  6 12:59 /kernel.old
% cat /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MASSIVEATTACK

machine         "i386"
cpu             "I386_CPU"
ident           MASSIVEATTACK
maxusers        32

options         IPFIREWALL
options         IPDIVERT

options         INET                    #InterNETworking
options         FFS                     #Berkeley Fast
Filesystem
options         FFS_ROOT                #FFS usable as root
device [keep this!]
options         PROCFS                  #Process filesystem
options         "COMPAT_43"             #Compatible with BSD 4.3
[KEEP THIS!]

config          kernel  root on wd0

controller      isa0

controller      fdc0    at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2
disk            fd0     at fdc0 drive 0
disk            fd1     at fdc0 drive 1
options         "CMD640"        # work around CMD640 chip
deficiency
controller      wdc0    at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14
disk            wd0     at wdc0 drive 0

controller      atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD tty
device          atkbd0  at isa? tty irq 1
device          vga0    at isa? port ? conflicts
device          sc0     at isa? tty
device          npx0    at isa? port IO_NPX irq 13

device          sio0    at isa? port "IO_COM1" flags 0x10 tty
irq 4
device          sio1    at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3

device          ppc0    at isa? port? flags 0x40 net irq 7
controller      ppbus0
device          lpt0    at ppbus?

device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 10 iomem 0xd8000
device ed1 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 5 iomem 0xd8000

pseudo-device   loop
pseudo-device   ether
pseudo-device   pty     16
pseudo-device   gzip            # Exec gzipped a.out's

options         SYSVSHM
options         SYSVMSG
options         SYSVSEM

pseudo-device   bpfilter 4      #Berkeley packet filter


--- ARCADY GENKIN <genkin@usa.net> wrote:
> My kernel on an i486 is 1.2Meg after I removed pretty much
> everything from it
> ;^). Is this normal size?
> 
> 
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