Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 19:28:58 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: Michael Walker <walker@usc.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Michael Beckmann <petzi@apfel.de> Subject: Re: Limitations in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.10.9910281925080.257-100000@cohiba.usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <19991029011348.B2757@apfel.de>
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> Here is the problem: > When you want to have 500 GB of storage, you will need 250 files. In the current > implementation of nnrpd, this will need 250 file descriptors per nnrpd. This will > limit the number of readers that can be supported on a system, because a nnrpd is > spawned for each reader. I was told that nnrpd can be hacked to only consume file > descriptors when really needed, but itīs supposed to have a performance penalty. > Thatīs why Iīm looking for a way of having large mmapīable files. Are you saying > that ALL Intel CPUs, including PIII, can only address 4 GB? I probably need to > look at other architectures or solve this fd problem. > > Michael Is FreeBSD available for Alpha's 64 bit arch (1.8e19)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the messagehelp
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