Actually this was the question asked in some exam. I do no how to calculate size of page table. They had given 4 answers... i)16mb ii)8mb iii)2mb iv) 24mb You have any idea? Regards, Rupa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raghu R. Arur" <rra2002@cs.columbia.edu> To: "Rupa" <rupa.ramakrishna@ionidea.com> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 11:47 AM Subject: Re: size of page table > > Hi, > > If you are talking about linux, the page table size is not related to the > memory size (RAM size). page table is for per process and in linux each > process will have 4GB of memory allocated. 3 GB for the user space and 1 > GB for the kernel space. > > HTH, > raghu > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Rupa wrote: > > > Hello, > > I have small doubt regarding the sizeof page table. Consider a machine with 64MB physical memory and a 32 bit virtual address space. If the page size is 4kb, what is the approximate size of page table.? > > Any help will be useful > > > > Rupa > > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
