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In article <6524@ttidca.TTI.COM> b-jones@ttidca.tti.com (Bill Jones) writes:
>What advantage does a program gain by using a page size that's greater
>than the hardware's physical page size?

Well, usually it's the kernel, not a specific program, that's involved.
The main reason for the kernel to use a larger page size is that various
forms of overhead occur on a per-page basis.  A larger page size wastes
a bit of memory but can greatly reduce overhead.

A not-insignificant side issue is that it can be very convenient if the
size of the memory pages matches the quantum of disk allocation in the
file system.
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