On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Ian Fry wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:43:48PM +0100, Ben Harris wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Ian Fry wrote:
> > > > For the most part, buffering in the kernel should be in page-sized chunks
> > > > these days, which is less than wonderful for us.
> > > Indeed :-( Is there anyway we could get the kernel memory allocator to
> > > sub-divide pages into 'virtual' ones - say 4 or 8k, rather than 32?
> > Not unless we can persuade the MEMC to do the same.
>
> Drat! MEMC uses a fixed 32k page, doesn't it? So, that'd be a no go.

No, but each MEMC can only support 128 pages, so if you reduce the page
size, you reduce the amount of RAM it can address.  I'm also not sure if
you can hook multiple MEMCs together with <32k pages.

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