Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!oleg From: oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: AIX on PC Message-ID: <20285@gryphon.COM> Date: 27 Sep 89 09:26:37 GMT References: <61434@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <4652@cps3xx.UUCP> <308@isctsse.UUCP> <20187@gryphon.COM> <16131@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> Reply-To: oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev) Distribution: usa Organization: HASA Lines: 13 In article <16131@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn) writes: >Let's be honest--the disk activity, if it's due to paging, is due to fat >programs and a fat kernel. True. AIX/PS kernel is huge. And I am not sure why, either. AIX has a LOT of stuff in the kernel, true. AIX/370 (Gen2) requires at least 3 Meg to run. And NLS support does not make things any smaller. -- "No regrets, no apologies" Ronald Reagan Oleg Kiselev ARPA: lcc.oleg@seas.ucla.edu, oleg@gryphon.COM (213)337-5230 UUCP: [world]!{ucla-se|gryphon}!lcc!oleg