On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Boehm, Hans wrote: > This of course causes problems for applications that try to use page > protection to track updates or are relying on small granularity > copy-on-write, or the like. Anything that uses our garbage collector in > incremental mode will fit that description, though I don't believe there > are currently many such applications. Checkpointing may be another
Why is that a problem? The granularity would change right? > similar issue, at least for some applications. Software DSM > implementations would clearly be affected. I would guess that the trend > is likely to be towards more of this in all three of those areas. Which? > I am not really arguing against this, since I don't have a good overview > of how many customers are likely to be affected. I just want to make > sure that both sides of the issue are considered. SLES9 is available in a 64k page size version. Some customers still run that one because it is faster. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
