Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Jan 2002 15:23:47 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: i686 SMP systems with more then 12 GB ram with 2.4.x kernel ? |
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On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:16:07PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > You don't neccessarily need PSE. Migrating to an option to support > 4K > _virtual_ page size is more flexible for x86, although it would need > glibc getpagesize() fixing I think, and might mean a few apps wouldnt > run in that configuration.
Perhaps, but if the majority of people using 64GB of ram are served well by PSE, then it's worth getting that 5% of performance back.
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