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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to use 8K page size on a i386 pc?
Date: 27 Aug 2002 17:06:08 -0700
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By author:    Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
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> 
> You may run into trouble with something that calls mmap with
> a fixed address, with executables which have text sizes of
> odd number of small pages. I was told that these problems are
> fairly rare.
> 

Only 50% of all binaries are affected... that's fairly rare :)

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