Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:32:24 +0200 | From | Rene Herman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...? |
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On 07/17/2007 01:27 AM, Matt Mackall wrote:
> Larger soft pages waste tremendous amounts of memory (mostly in page > cache) for minimal benefit on, say, the typical desktop. While there > are workloads where it's a win, it's probably on a small percentage of > machines. > > So it's absolutely no help in fixing our order-1 allocation problem > because we don't want to force large pages on people.
Okay. I would've expected that 4K was fairly tiny for today's loads but as usual I'm relatively data challenged so I guess I'll take your word for it. Bummer.
Rene.
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