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Re: SRM vs ARC



On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 09:48:27AM +1300, Martin Lucina wrote:
> 
> > > I'd not heard about the memory footprint issue.  Can you quantify it?
> > > Is this the loss of some memory when the system is running?
> > 
> > Yes, and the loss is around a megabyte or 1.5 megabytes if I recall
> > correctly.
> 
> I am booting MILO from SRM with 32 MB of RAM and the kernel reports 30256 kb 
> total memory, accounting for the fact that this is minus about 1536 kb of
> the kernel itself, this doesnt seem like a huge loss.

I'm seeing 44712K total (free command) when I boot SRM/aboot with 48MB
installed in a UDB.  That's 4MB.  How can I tell how much is used by
the kernel?


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