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From: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:31:41 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] CONFIG_IA64_PAGE_SIZE
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>>>>> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:21:38 -0700, Don Dugger <n0ano@valinux.com> said:

  Don> This means IA32 processes are slower to start.

This needs to be qualified: in my experience, on a kernel with >4K
page size, IA32 processes start up slower _the first time_ they are
invoked.  Assuming sufficient memory, subsequent invocations of the
same program appear to be much faster than with 4KB pages.  Quite
unexpected.

	--david