Re: kernel page size explanation

[Nix]

On 22 Jul 2005, Jesper Juhl suggested tentatively:
> You can
>  A) look in the .config file for your current kernel (if your arch
> supports different page sizes at all).
>  B) You can use the  getpagesize(2) syscall at runtime. getpagesize()
> returns the nr of bytes in a page - man getpagesize - I'm not sure
> that's universally supported though.
>  C) You can look at /proc/cpuinfo or /proc/meminfo , IIRC some archs
> report page size there - not quite sure, can't remember...

D) getconf PAGE_SIZE should work, although what it does on arches
   with variable page sizes isn't clear to me.

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