On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Terry Lambert wrote:
> You still haven't told me what Linux does for 2x4G processes
> and a 1G kernel with "only" 8G of physical RAM. I rather
> suspect that as soon as your usage exceeds real memory, it
> all goes to hell very quickly, since your L1 and L2 caches
> are effectively disabled by the frequent reloading of CR3
> and CR4 on context switches...
Page tables can point to pages all over memory, there
is no need to use stupid segment tricks for anything.
regards,
Rik
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