Subj : Re: programming with large memory requirements
To   : comp.programming
From : Randy Howard
Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 11:53 pm

Ben Pfaff wrote
(in article <87oe6dhy51.fsf@benpfaff.org>):

> Randy Howard <randyhoward@FOOverizonBAR.net> writes:
> 
>> Ben Pfaff wrote
>> (in article <87oe6d9re5.fsf@benpfaff.org>):
>> 
>>> or concatenate multiple 1 GB ram disks using a raid
>>> driver.  Either one would allow the effect of a 9 GB ram disk.
>> 
>> Actually, this one is likely to have some measurable overhead, 
>> if it does work.  At the end of the day, no great answer is 
>> available on 32-bit boxes.
> 
> It's certainly true that the best choice would be to spend $300
> for an AMD64 box.

I didn't realize there were many $300 solutions that came with 
9GB ++ of RAM installed.  If you know of one, I'd appreciate a 
link to order one.  :-)

Nevermind finding a $300 box with enough slots to even populate 
that much memory, provided you had the memory already available 
to you some other way.


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