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SubjectRe: HP LH3 & Linux alternate question
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In message <19981003.211817.9047.0.boris.gorisek@juno.com>, boris p gorisek 
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| On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 23:45:56 +0200 (CEST) Rik van Riel
| <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> writes:
| >On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Seth Rosen wrote:
| >> Do I need a swap partition with 640meg of main memory? 'Cause I'm
| >
| >If you're just going to install the new drive, you won't
| >need swap. Once you get up and running and need multiple
| >hundreds of megabytes of memory, it might just be nice
| >to have a piece of swap lying around ;)
| >
| >Just in case that 1.3 GB application comes around...
|
| shades of windows, are we all going mad with large code sizes, what ever
| happened to small efficent fast running code?
+--->8

"Small efficient fast-running code" isn't the only issue. A case in point
in CMU ECE is Matlab: the code isn't that bad, but the data sets get *very*
large. Large enough, in fact, that we're impatiently waiting for a released
kernel with large swap partition support ("released" because we're unlikely
to get a stable AFS client for 2.0.36pre-patches :-) for the folks who want
to run their jobs without having to fight for access to the Suns and Alphas.

And before CMU I was consulting for a bank department which runs financial
simulations a lot. One simulation they were experimenting with used 2GB of
RAM and an equal amount of swap....

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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university



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