Subj : Re: programming with large memory requirements
To   : comp.programming
From : Randy Howard
Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 03:37 pm

Ben Pfaff wrote
(in article <87wtl19swi.fsf@benpfaff.org>):

> Randy Howard <randyhoward@FOOverizonBAR.net> writes:
> 
>> Ben Pfaff wrote
>> (in article <878xxhc27s.fsf@benpfaff.org>):
>> 
>>> Randy Howard <randyhoward@FOOverizonBAR.net> 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.

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0407.0/0586.html


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