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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Does cache memory size 512K over 256K matter? Date: 27 Jul 1996 22:02:00 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4te3ko$2ts@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.A32.3.93.960716180913.29739A-100000@r2d3.sbac.edu> <31F17B64.EDF@www.play-hookey.com> <4t2pe4$9o@anorak.coverform.lan> <4t4klb$q7m@baygull.rtd.com> <4t5mf2$9lg@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) wrote: > Obviously, trying to trim the FreeBSD kernel down to 8kB is perhaps a > little extreme, but 256k or 512k may not be totally impossible and > might be of interest to the embedded controller world. Has anyone > ever tried this? Getting it below 400 KB is already getting tricky. This doesn't even account for all the run-time data structures. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)