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SubjectRe: Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed?
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Making the _generic_ code jump through hoops because some stupid special
> case that nobody else is interested in is bad.

Thoughts in no particular order:
- set large page size based on file size or mapped section size
- set LPS based on a capability on the program
- set LPS based on a flag of some nature on the file
- set LPS based on the number of processes mapping the file

I mention these because it would be nice to get better behaviour from
programs which aren't optimized for Linux and may never be.

--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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