Re: using more than 2 GB as a ram disk

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
2 Feb 1999 00:52:14 GMT

Followup to: <19990202110924-cameron-1-08707@ixus.research.canon.com.au>
By author: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> ASIC people too, and they really do want it as generic buffers.
>
> Here (my workplace, not zip) we're readily getting into ASIC simulation work
> which wants buckets of memory. Intel boxes are cheap CPU and if/when our
> design tools get ported to Linux we would probably be very happy to have
> 2G+ of RAM.
>
> Of course, that only gets us to 4G. It may be that when we get well
> over 2G we'll want to step straight to a 64bit platform (like the
> Ultras we're running now anyway).
>

No, you can never get to 4 GB -- in fact, getting more than 2 GB is
probably impossible for you.

You probably want to go 64-bit, like UltraSPARC or Alpha.

-hpa

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