Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: larger default page sizes... | Date | Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:25:11 -0700 | From | "Luck, Tony" <> |
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> 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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