Subj : Re: programming with large memory requirements To : comp.programming From : Ben Pfaff Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 08:19 am Randy Howard writes: > Ben Pfaff wrote > (in article <878xxhc27s.fsf@benpfaff.org>): > >> Randy Howard writes: >> >>> Let me know when you locate a ram drive for a 32-bit box that >>> supports 9GB ramdisks. >> >> If your 32-bit box supports 9 GB RAM, then there's little reason >> to believe it wouldn't support 9 GB RAM disks. Why not? > > Then it should be easy for you to name one. :-) A brief scan through the Linux 2.6 ramdisk driver doesn't show any arbitrary limits. It's based out of the page cache, which is itself not limited to 4 GB on 32-bit boxes. -- Ben Pfaff email: blp@cs.stanford.edu web: http://benpfaff.org .