On 9/19/06, Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> wrote:
IA64 has supported 64k page size from the beginning. Since some
years before the end of the last decade. It is only the hardware
limitations on IA32 that hold us back.
But memory usage with a 64K page size can get out of hand (especially
if you have an application that uses a lot of small files). Dave Kleikamp's
tail pages would help make 64K page size more generally palatable.
-Tony
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