Page size

Large pages, large blocks, and large problems
http://lwn.net/Articles/250335/

CS 1550 Second Midterm Exam
ftp://cs.pitt.edu/courses/1550/solutions/exam2-spring05.pdf

What are some advantages and disadvantages of increasing the page size of a system that uses
paged virtual memory?
Advantage:

Less page faults
Smaller page tables

Disadvantage:

Larger page size, more fragment
Longer disk transfer
More page fault if no locality

Multiple Page Size Support
http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/Multiple_Page_Size_Support

Practical, transparent operating system support for superpages
http://www.cs.uah.edu/~weisskop/Notes690/A16_MemMgt-SuperPages.ppt