Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

Rene Herman
2007-07-16T23:33:31Z

On 07/17/2007 01:27 AM, Matt Mackall wrote:

> Larger soft pages waste tremendous amounts of memory (mostly in page
> cache) for minimal benefit on, say, the typical desktop. While there
> are workloads where it's a win, it's probably on a small percentage of
> machines.
>
> So it's absolutely no help in fixing our order-1 allocation problem
> because we don't want to force large pages on people.

Okay. I would've expected that 4K was fairly tiny for today's loads but as
usual I'm relatively data challenged so I guess I'll take your word for it.
Bummer.

Rene.