Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: kcore and memory questions | From | <> | Date | Tue, 30 Jul 1996 19:50:44 -0400 (EDT) |
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> > For the current implementations the absolute limits are the 36 bits > > address bus (== 64GB) and 1TB virtual addrss space for user programs. This > > shouldn't really be a limit for anyone (no, don't mmap your TB raid array ...) > > but iff there is room in the architecture to grow the user address space up > > to 2^63 bytes (8 Exabytes), the physical address space up to 2^56 bytes (64 > > Petabytes). Numbers that are pretty insane huge ... > > > > Don't say that, those are famous last words (rember that a certain Gates > is supposed to have said that 640k is enough for anyone ...).
Especially now that Oracle databases are caching upwards of 18 GB on Alpha 8200s where just a year ago a 100mb cache on 32-bit server was pretty big. Tried Alta Vista lately? You have to experience the query speed to believe it.
Melvin
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