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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:33:23 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] gar nix!
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On Fri Sep 16 11:31:58 EDT 2011, nemo@lsub.org wrote:
> I agree, but I think it's ok if we use them only if we have them, and rely on
> just 2M otherwise.
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:28 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:57 AM, erik quanstrom
> > <quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
> >
> >> please don't make it required.  there's already array of page sizes per mach.
> >
> > sorry, but time moves forward. We need the 1G pages for user mode
> > anyway -- so the fact that you can run on older machines is a happy
> > coincidence but it will die the first time you run a process that uses
> > more than 1G. Reducing PTE count by 512 is a not insignificant cost. I
> > expect to put the 1G pages for the kernel map back in in the next
> > while.

i would hate to have dogmatic rules like this limit cooperation.  i'm really
excited about nix.  please don't kill the buzz off so quickly.

- erik