* [gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel?
@ 2005-08-31 15:23 99% Ow Mun Heng
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From: Ow Mun Heng @ 2005-08-31 15:23 UTC (permalink / raw
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Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem (HIGHPTE)
The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory.
For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious
low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table
entries in high memory.
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I have 1.5Gb of RAM, will this be useful for me?
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