Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: HP LH3 & Linux alternate question | Date | Sat, 03 Oct 1998 21:52:50 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <19981003.211817.9047.0.boris.gorisek@juno.com>, boris p gorisek wri tes: +----- | 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....
-- 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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