[ANN] SqueakOS

Dan Ingalls Dan.Ingalls at disney.com
Mon Oct 11 15:43:25 UTC 1999


>The SqueakOS-Kernel is only 440K:
>
>-rw-rw-r--   1 marcus   marcus     454619 Oct 10 22:15 zImage
>
>This includes the 600k embedded.image!

Marcus -

This sounds great.

I assume your system is a minimal Squeak image bundled with a VM that was linked in with the OSKit.

My questions...

What image did you start with?

I once made up a Squeak image that was ony 250K for headless work (it would probably be hard to get down to that now, though).  Anyway it's still on a server somewhere.

What VM did you start with?

Is your file smaller because of compression?

If so, is this done so that the boot file on the disk is compressed and it expands during loading?

What is the final "footprint" -- meaning, when squeak is running, executing something from the command, how much space do flux, the vm and the image each take up, roughly, and how much free space do you typically allocate for free space in the object memory?

Thanks in advance for any enlightenment you can give.

	- Dan





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