Other cases where large page size will hurt are where the user application consists of a very large number of small processes (since the memory footprint for a small process will be almost quadrupled) or where small pieces of large files (or a large number of small files) are being randomly accessed (because of fragmentation in the page cache). But I've been thinking of switching over to 64K pages for a while. As you say ia64 systems tend to have a large amount of memory ... and everyone's idea of "large" when talking about memory has been gradually increasing over the years (choice for laptops is now 1G or 2G!). It would seem silly to provision an ia64 box with less than 16G of memory today. -Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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