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Page sizes in UNIX and UNIX-like systems have been 4K for as long as I can remember knowing about pages, about 30-odd years. It was obviously a good compromise
by simonblack 3y ago
Page sizes in UNIX and UNIX-like systems have been 4K for as long as I can remember knowing about pages, about 30-odd years.
It was obviously a good compromise size back then. It could probably be increased to (say) 64K without much hassle in these days of 32-64 gigs of RAM.