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Adding a huge zero page

Adding a huge zero page

Posted Sep 27, 2012 4:37 UTC (Thu) by ikm (subscriber, #493)
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How huge is that page, anyway?


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Adding a huge zero page

Posted Sep 27, 2012 6:08 UTC (Thu) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]

4 megabytes, IIRC.

Adding a huge zero page

Posted Sep 28, 2012 8:14 UTC (Fri) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]

Ouch! You mean the whole 0.1% of my RAM? That's a lot, especially compared to Firefox using only 704 MB, Thunderbird 337 MB (after restarting it, otherwise it was at 700+) and Chromium 1GB+... ;-)

Adding a huge zero page

Posted Sep 27, 2012 8:57 UTC (Thu) by kiryl (subscriber, #41516) [Link]

It depends on architecture obviously. On x86_64 it's 2M.

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