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Subject: Re: Maybe a VM bug in 2.4.18-18 from RH 8.0?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 00:21, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 16K is reasonable; after that one might as well go all the way.
> About the only way to cope is amortizing it by cacheing zeroed pages,
> and that has other downsides.

Some of the lower end CPU's only have about 12-16K of L1. I don't think
thats a big problem since those aren't going to be highmem or large
memory users 

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