> On 15 Jul 1998, Harvey J. Stein wrote:
> > The math isn't quite right. Consider:
> >
> > 1st hole placed on 1st page.
> >
> > 2nd hole placed on 4th page.
> >
> > There are now x-5 places to place the 3rd hole, not x-4.
>
> No, the thing is that you also have to worry about the alignement: we get
> a 8kB area only if we have two consecutive 4kB holes that are also
> aligned.
>
> As such 0+1 would be a 8kB area, and 4+5 would be one, but 3+4 and 1+2
> would not.
Ok. In that case I'm not counting the right thing. I'll redo my
computations and see what happens.
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