Ow Mun Heng wrote: > [quote] > 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. > [/quote] > > I have 1.5Gb of RAM, will this be useful for me? > Not sure but: 3rd-level pagetables are for systems with a *lot* of memory that don't want to waste space in the lowest gig of mem (to keep addresses of high mem.).
So basically no advantage with 1.5 gig Cheers -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
