Re: syscons options and memory use

From: Ronald Klop (ronald-freebsd8_at_klop.yi.org)
Date: 03/31/05

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    To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:53:59 +0200

    On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:04:10 -0600, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
    wrote:

    > In the last episode (Mar 31), Ronald Klop said:
    >> The syscons manual page says:
    >> " The following options will remove some features from the syscons
    >> driver and save kernel memory.
    >> [...]
    >> SC_NO_SYSMOUSE
    >> This option removes mouse support in the syscons driver.
    >> The mouse daemon moused(8) will fail if this option is
    >> defined. This option implies the SC_NO_CUTPASTE option
    >> too.
    >> "
    >>
    >> How much memory does this save (or how can I discover that)? Is it worth
    >> it on a 96MB PentiumII laptop?
    >
    > I would guess that the memory savings is probably on the order of
    > kilobytes. Useful if you're trying to prevent excessive swapping on an
    > 8MB system. Not worth disabling on your system.

    How can I see the size of my kernel?
    I know vmstat -m and netstat -m, but from that info I don't see if I
    reduced the memory footprint after disabling an option or device. 

    -- 
  Ronald Klop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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