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From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: Is it possible to use 8K page size on a i386 pc?
Date27 Aug 2002 17:06:08 -0700
Followup to:  <200208271914.g7RJEQE07821@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
By author:    Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> You may run into trouble with something that calls mmap with
> a fixed address, with executables which have text sizes of
> odd number of small pages. I was told that these problems are
> fairly rare.
> 

Only 50% of all binaries are affected... that's fairly rare :)

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