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> At present, our pool allocator allocates memory to each pool in page-sized
> units.  On systems where the hardware page size in unreasonably large
> (e.g. 32K on arm26), this can lead to substantial amounts of wastage (an
> arm26 system booted single user has 832K allocated to pools, of which only
> 69K is actually in use).
it will somewhat improve on other arch too. vmstat -m shows some entries
which use 1 page on i386 of which more than half is unused.