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

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.