Re: Determining Page Size on AMD64 Etch

["Owen Heisler" <owenh000@gmail.com>]

On 1/1/07, Jhair Tocancipa Triana <jhair.tocancipa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Owen Heisler writes:
> > On 12/29/06, Matt Miller <debian@mattmillersf.fastmail.fm> wrote:
> >> > > see what my page size is?
> >> >
> >> > man 2 getpagesize
> >>
> >> Thanks, that helped.  I wrote the following C program which
> >> apparently tells me that my pagesize is 4K:
> >>
> >> #include <unistd.h>
> >> #include <stdio.h>
> >>
> >> int main ()
> >> {
> >> printf ("%d\n", getpagesize ());
> >> return 0;
> >> }
>
> > Maybe I'm missing something, but why not just look at /proc/swaps?
>
> Because /proc/swaps doesn't show the memory page size.

Oh, I was thinking of the "pagefile size" in Windows, which means (at
least I thought it did) the amount of virtual memory in use.  I see
now in the getpagesize man page that this rather is something to do
with how files are stored in memory.  I learn more all the time!