Re: Getting/Forcing Greater than 4KB Buffer Allocations

From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger_at_mac.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:18:47 -0700
On Jul 17, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Kip Macy wrote:
>> Is "sysctl hw.pagesize" different on the two systems?  It sure looks
>> like the first machine is using a 4KB pagesize, whereas the second
>> machine is using an 8KB pagesize...
>
> There is no such thing as 8k physical pages on ia32 or x86_64.

True, but m68k, SPARC, maybe PPC have 8K pages, IIRC...  :-)

-- 
-Chuck
Received on Wed Jul 18 2007 - 15:18:48 UTC

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