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Date:      Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:18:47 -0700
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>
Cc:        David Christensen <davidch@broadcom.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Getting/Forcing Greater than 4KB Buffer Allocations
Message-ID:  <8FC96834-0E90-4BD5-A324-9C39E47F3E8B@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <b1fa29170707171723ibc5f080r5f24f78e731df41a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jul 17, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Kip Macy wrote:
>> Is "sysctl hw.pagesize" different on the two systems?  It sure looks
>> like the first machine is using a 4KB pagesize, whereas the second
>> machine is using an 8KB pagesize...
>
> There is no such thing as 8k physical pages on ia32 or x86_64.

True, but m68k, SPARC, maybe PPC have 8K pages, IIRC...  :-)

-- 
-Chuck




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