Re: size of page table

["Rupa" <rupa.ramakrishna@ionidea.com>]

Actually this was the question asked in some exam. I do no how to calculate
size of page table. They had given 4 answers...
i)16mb ii)8mb
iii)2mb iv) 24mb

You have any idea?

Regards,
Rupa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raghu R. Arur" <rra2002@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Rupa" <rupa.ramakrishna@ionidea.com>
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: size of page table


>
> Hi,
>
>  If you are talking about linux, the page table size is not related to the
> memory size (RAM size). page table is for per process and in linux each
> process will have 4GB of memory allocated. 3 GB for the user space and 1
> GB for the kernel space.
>
>  HTH,
> raghu
>
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Rupa wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >     I have small doubt regarding the sizeof page table. Consider a
machine with 64MB physical memory and a 32 bit virtual address space. If the
page size is 4kb, what is the approximate size of page table.?
> > Any help will be useful
> >
> > Rupa
> >
>

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