> Don't try changing the page size. > Not only will you need to change > all the page table handling and a few device drivers, You are right............. it was really of not much success !! > It is common for the same page of physical memory to be mapped > both by userspace processes and by the kernel. As i mentioned in my other mail........ that i cud not attach the shared memory segment of 8gb twice... v.i.z i was able to use only one segment of 8gb... and when i tried to attach a different segment( i.e with different shimid) to a different process, i got segfault.... Cud not understand why...!! Is n't 64 bit machine capable of addressing 512 GB of VMA !! Vishal. > > Rik > -- > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/