Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:57:22 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: File BlockSize |
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:37:43PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > Going to a block size bigger than page size causes all sorts of fun with > allocation failures if there are not two pages free adjacent to one another > when allocating, and isn't really worth the cost.
This sounds like fairly severe memory fragmentation, which seems more worrisome to me than blocksize constraints. Should I look into that?
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