Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | RE: larger default page sizes... | | Date | Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:25:11 -0700 | | From | "Luck, Tony" <> | |
> The memory wastage is just rediculious.
In an ideal world we'd have variable sized pages ... but
since most arcthitectures have no h/w support for these
it may be a long time before that comes to Linux.
In a fixed page size world the right page size to use
depends on the workload and the capacity of the system.
When memory capacity is measured in hundreds of GB, then
a larger page size doesn't look so ridiculous.
-Tony
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