From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
To: "Jérôme Pinot" <ngc891@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Evolution of kernel size
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:59:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111110145902.GA13619@elliptictech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111110143333.GA29457@comet.deepsky.org>
On 2011-11-10 23:33 +0900, Jérôme Pinot wrote:
> I took some time to make a graph of the evolution of the size of the
> linux kernel tar.bz2 since version 1.0 till 3.1 (297 releases).
> It doesn't count the stable branches (2.6.x.y).
>
> Impressive, it's mostly exponential.
> If dev keeps same pace, we should break the 100MB at
> linux 3.19.
>
> You can get the graph on my blog, I provide the data and the
> gnuplot batch file for graphing/fitting:
> http://ngc891.blogdns.net/?p=92
>
> It may interest some people :-)
What scale did you use for the horizontal axis? I see numbers assigned
to each version in your gnuplot file, but no indication of how you came
up with them.
Cheers,
--
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-10 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-10 14:33 Evolution of kernel size Jérôme Pinot
2011-11-10 14:59 ` Nick Bowler [this message]
2011-11-10 15:15 ` Jérôme Pinot
2011-11-10 15:40 ` Nick Bowler
2011-11-10 16:19 ` Jérôme Pinot
2011-11-11 16:51 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-11-12 13:04 ` Jérôme Pinot
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