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SubjectRe: Porting to 4MB pages

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Craig Milo Rogers wrote:

> Extending this thought a little, what would it take to create
> an i386-4M "port" of Linux, by which I mean, one in which *all* pages
> were 4M?

this would be a disaster. Just calculate how much physical RAM the typical
200 processes need that are running in a Linux system. 800M at least ...

-- mingo



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