Re: patch to trim page table cache

David S. Miller (davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 03:16:10 -0700


From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 20:15:17 +0100 (BST)

25 pages on an ARM3 box is 800K, on sane machines its much less
signficant. If this is an issue then turn it off on an 8Mb
machine.

This is precisely the path I am suggesting people to take if it really
is contributing to the bigger problems we have on low memory machines.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com

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