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SubjectRe: Linux Buffer Overflow Security Exploits
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ralf@uni-koblenz.de writes:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 07:30:15PM +0100, Martin Mares wrote:
> > The answer is "You don't want to do this". Using >4G of RAM on a 32-bit
> > CPU is brain-damaged.
>
> The only halfway sane answer to this problem is NUMA but then who offers
> such hardware ...

Sequent do ia32-based NUMAs (the latest models use quad Xeons as
nodes). The latencies aren't as good as SGI's machines, though.

> Then again calling the ``ia32'' thing an architecture
> is an insult of the whole competition ...

Dave Wragg


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