> > > That's one extra process, not that much, right?
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> > 
> > About 150K or so way too much and its not robust.
> 
> Fair enough.  So, with this driver, would it make sense for the distros
> to switch over to using it instead of the above line in their initrd?

Distros no - I doubt any normal PC distro would turn the facility on.
Embedded - yes especially deeply embedded.

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> Ok, I didn't realize it really was that big.

libc page tables
app page tables
stacks (kernel and user)
arguments/exec page
buffers

Yes - it soon adds up.

Alan
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