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0.2% really isn't free. If you have a data set of 10 TB (one small-ish HDD right now, or one large SSD), that's ~20 GiB in page tables alone. If you can use 2MB pages, then sure, but I would assume that also limits your page-in granularity.



Oh, you're right. I wasn't remembering we needed PTEs to cover the data not paged in as well as the data in RAM. Sorry.




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