Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 02:38:23 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, craig <craiglei@pasia.com.cn>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108040235500.2526-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> In-Reply-To: <3B6B86F0.EAAA016@mindspring.com>
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On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > This is a trivial implementation. I'm not very impressed. > Personally, I'm not interested in a huge user space, Maybe not you, but I bet the database and scientific computing people will be interested in having 64 GB memory support in this simple way. > Fully populating both the transmit and receive windows for > 1M connections is 32G of RAM, right there... and it better > be kernel RAM, or you're screwed. Well, you _could_ store this memory in "files", which get mapped and unmapped by the same code the filesystem code uses to access file data in non-kernel-mapped RAM. *runs like hell* regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Send all your spam to aardvark@nl.linux.org (spam digging piggy) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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