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SubjectRe: Ideas for reducing memory copying and zeroing times
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>    The page tables came to 2108k.  This is rather a lot of memory to
> have locked in RAM, especially as most of the processes are daemons
> that are idle most of the time. (I have 53 processes running right
> now, in 16Mb RAM).
> Peanuts, it takes 3mb of page tables to map all the physical pages of
> ram into kernel space on my SMP Sparc box.

Which is too much unpageable data. Page tables are meant to be paged.

Alan



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