On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 9:59 PM Ralf Baechle wrote: > Usual warning - wired entries are almost always a bad idea. TLB entries > are a scarce resource and wiring will reduce the number available for > random replacement even further raising the amount of CPU burned in the > TLB reload handler. Thanks Ralf. It is "just one" wired global TLB entry (admiteddly, out of a paltry 32). Using the wired entry has fixed the immediate problem at hand, so I decided it's worth it for now. Joseph