Memory page
Memory page is a range of consecutive addresses in the virtual address space whose size is a power of two. Those virtual addresses are translated in a corresponding range of consecutive physical addresses. The memory referenced by such a range is called a page.
Size of memory page is architecture and operating system dependant. On an x86 and x86_64 hardware, memory page is equal to 4KB. On an Intel Itanium (IA64) memory page size is 16KB.
You can get the actual value on your Linux/UNIX system with the getpagesize-Syscall. Here is a C Program that prints the pagesize on your system :
#include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { long sz = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE); printf("memory pagesize on this box : %i\n", sz); return 0; }
compile with :
gcc -o getpagesize getpagesize.c