>
>Once we can to some measurements we might come up with some proposal.
>Right now I can say that allocating all 8192 LDT entries is overkill
>for us.
>
IMHO the LDT allocation is overkill in almost all situations. It should
be fairly easy to have variable length LDT's allocated in say 512 LDT
entry chunks.
At the moment it is very easy for LDT's to use up large chunks of your
physical memory but hold only a few bytes of useful infomation.
Regards
David Bruce
David Bruce <david@hulcote.com>
Hulcote Electronics (Europe) Ltd.
Manton Lane.
Bedford, MK41 7UZ
U.K.
(Tel) +44 (0)1234 344206 (Fax) +44 (0)1234 269538
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