On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 07:25:50PM -0500, Alex deVries wrote:
> I had a closer look at it, and indeed, all the memory is accounted for.
> But, what I'm totally unused to is things taking up so much. I've got
> 64MB in there now (although it's detected as 60248kB, it's missing 4MB).
The 60248kb is what the ARC firmware returns as free memory.
> Now I've got just the bare bones required to do anything productive:
> bdflush, inetd and a couple of shells. There goes half my memory.
>
> For example, 'su' takes up 4.5MB. This seems like an awful lot to me,
> compared to the Intel equivalent of 1MB. I know the binaries are going to
> be larger because of the RISC thing, but really that large?
>
> Is this normal?
It think the way these numbers are being computed is broken for MIPS.
MIPS executables are rougly 50-70% bigger than i386 ones; the size of the
data in executables and memory should be comparable.
Ralf
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