GSOC 2013 project " Kernel Size Reduction for Embedded System "

[Kimmo Paasiala]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Wojciech Puchar
<wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
>>> And yes FreeBSD kernel is huge. doesn't really matter with 1GB or more
>>> RAM but yes - it is huge even relative to linux.
>>
>>
>> Ah, any insight as to why?
>
> my custom compiled kernel:
>
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  8791402  6 kwi 22:08 /boot//kernel/kernel
>
> only with features i need. linux is AFAIK like 3-4MB uncompressed.
>

Your comparison is far from accurate, include the memory taken by
loaded kernel modules on both systems and then you might get some
proper numbers.

-Kimmo