Amos Jeffries wrote:
32KB == 1 page allocation for the particular SMB shared memory systems used.
--- Particular SMB shared memory systems? Don't you just use something like the posix shm calls? I see squid's cache in /dev/shm: Ishtar:/dev/shm> lh -rw-rw-rw- 1 70K Jul 27 17:14 jack-shm-registry -r-------- 1 65M Jul 26 17:51 pulse-shm-1005231492 -rwxrwxr-x 1 32 Jul 27 17:14 sem.jack_sem.5013_default_system* -rw------- 1 29M Aug 2 18:53 squid-cache_mem.shm -rw------- 1 8.1G Aug 2 18:53 squid-squid-page-pool.shm I doubt the kernel expects only 32k allocations... especially since the only other default on x86 is 8k (going the 32bit compat route). What's using 32KB?