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Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 10:36:17 +1000
From: john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net>
To: Peter Svensson <petersv@psv.nu>
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Subject: Re: x86 Page Sizes
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:35:05AM +0200, Peter Svensson wrote:
> The x86 cpus can use 4K or 4M pages in the hardware. The 4M pages are 

DDJ ran an article quite a few years on this very topic.  i'm sure they
also mentioned that some processors (ppro/p2 onwards?) are capable of
2MiB pages

j.

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