Re: [osol-discuss] Using multiple page sizes

2010-08-10 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
The short answer, AFAIK, is yes, these are the only page sizes you can use. You cannot select arbitrary sizes and use them at will. Here is some detail: The page size support table in the kernel is hw_page_array[] and is populated for the x86 by page_coloring_init() in i86pc/vm/vm_machdep.c

[osol-discuss] Using multiple page sizes

2010-08-09 Thread Kishore Kumar Pusukuri
I would like to see the impact of different page sizes on the performance of multi-threaded applications. However, the pagesize -a command is producing only 3 possible page sizes including the default 4Kb on my AMD machine (shown below). Are these only page sizes I can use? (or) Is there anyway