> > > That's one extra process, not that much, right? > > > > About 150K or so way too much and its not robust. > > Fair enough. So, with this driver, would it make sense for the distros > to switch over to using it instead of the above line in their initrd? Distros no - I doubt any normal PC distro would turn the facility on. Embedded - yes especially deeply embedded. > Ok, I didn't realize it really was that big. libc page tables app page tables stacks (kernel and user) arguments/exec page buffers Yes - it soon adds up. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html