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Old 15th April 2012
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That's not kernel space consumption, that's video memory. The 5.0-release, uniprocessor i386 kernel consumes just under 9MB.

Using config(8) to disable drivers will save no RAM whatsoever; they are statically linked within the monolithic kernel.

Last edited by jggimi; 15th April 2012 at 10:12 PM. Reason: typo
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