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On 23/02/2011 14:03, Dr. Baud wrote:
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>      In general, is it unadvisable to disable super pages?

I don't think there would be any effect on the stability of operation if 
you disable superpages, but generally (except in cases of CPU bugs) you 
would not need to. Your system should operate a bit faster with 
superpages enabled.