From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263196AbVFWIT2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 04:19:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262286AbVFWIJx (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 04:09:53 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:6608 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262288AbVFWGiq (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 02:38:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:37:59 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Mike Bell Cc: miles@gnu.org, greg@kroah.com, gregkh@suse.de, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.12-git Message-Id: <20050622233759.7a1130a9.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050623063457.GB955@mikebell.org> References: <20050621062926.GB15062@kroah.com> <20050620235403.45bf9613.akpm@osdl.org> <20050621151019.GA19666@kroah.com> <20050623010031.GB17453@mikebell.org> <20050623045959.GB10386@kroah.com> <20050623063457.GB955@mikebell.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mike Bell wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 03:14:08PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > > BTW, has anyone done a comparison of the space usage of udev vs. devfs > > (including size of code etc....)? > > Greg gave me an "I assume so" estimate that udev was smaller by excluding > the size of sysfs a while back. If you include sysfs in udev's overhead > then I believe devfs wins handily, but I haven't done the numbers to > prove it so my estimate is no better. I'm just basing it on sysfs being > absolutely huge, in linux-tiny terms. sysfs certainly has a history of goggling gobs of memory. But you can disable it in .config.