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Article #2367Re: Variable Page size
From: Alessandro Forin
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1989 23:05
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1989 23:05
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In article <1006@mipos3.intel.com>, rajeevc@mipos2.intel.com (rajeev chandrasekhar) writes: > > Does anybody know of some form of Unix that supports variable > page sizes. I would be real interested in finding out more > about something like this if it exists at all !! > If you mean selecting the pagesize at boot time then Mach is one. Any multiple of the hardware pagesize is acceptable. This feature is used routinely and the machines that use a default pagesize greater than the hardware one are probably the majority. sandro-
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!spice.cs.cmu.edu!af From: af@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Alessandro Forin) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Variable Page size Message-ID: <6333@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 28 Sep 89 23:05:24 GMT References: <1006@mipos3.intel.com> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 13