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4K seems appropriate for embedded applications. Meanwhile 4M seems like it would be plenty small for my desktop. Nearly every process is currently using more than that. Even the lightest is still coming in at a bit over 1M


1M is a huge waste of memory.

Imagine writing out a one sentence note in notepad and the resulting file being 1M on disk.


Yet when I reference the running processes on my desktop something like 90% of them have more than 16M resident. So it doesn't appear that even an 8M page size would waste much on a modern desktop during typical usage.

If I'm mistaken about some low level detail I'd be interested to learn more.




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