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>
>       other question - tried enabling it on my i386 laptop (256 megs ram), always
>       mappings==0, while promitions>demotions>0.
> 
> 
> The default starting address for executables on i386 is not aligned to a 2/4MB page boundary. 
> Hence, "mappings" are much less likely to occur.
> 
>
>       certainly there are apps that could be put on big pages, gimp editing 40MB bitmap for
>       example
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Alan
> 
> 
> 
how can i check how much (or maybe - what processes) 2MB pages are 
actually allocated?