From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262745AbTJNVHm (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:07:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262770AbTJNVHm (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:07:42 -0400 Received: from smtp5.hy.skanova.net ([195.67.199.134]:19936 "EHLO smtp5.hy.skanova.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262745AbTJNVHl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:07:41 -0400 From: Roger Larsson To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Unbloating the kernel, was: :mem=16MB laptop testing Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:11:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <200310142311.36472.roger.larsson@skelleftea.mail.telia.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 14 October 2003 18.27, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote: > Of course part of the problem is that by designing the kernel for high mem > situations we're using more memory hogging algorithms. It's a simple > matter of features vs mem footprint. Algorithms using lots of memory should be avoided even for newer computers. Cache misses HURTS. That is why -Os can be a better compilation option than -O2 ! /RogerL -- Roger Larsson Skellefteċ Sweden