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Re: SRM vs ARC



On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 12:21:11AM -0910, Martin Lucina wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> [cassiel:linux]$ size vmlinux
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 1222869  216904  198988 1638761  190169 vmlinux
> 
> The in-memory size of your kernel will be about 1.5MB.
> 

Oh, duh.  Are the allocated buffers visible from 'free'?  In other
words, is the kernel image the only memory consumption hidden from
free?  Do we lose something, .5MB, where the BIOS ROMS are located?


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