* Chris Schirlinger: > 4096 in Win32 machines and 1024 on nix ones (I think, I am no expert > on Unix style OS's)
This depends on the file system. On Linux on x86, it's typically 4096 bytes. According to my performance measurements, switching from page size of 1024 bytes to 4096 bytes gives a measurable performance improvement (but nothing dramatic, for my workload).
