Re: using more than 2 GB as a ram disk

Manfred Spraul (masp0008@stud.uni-sb.de)
Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:25:51 +0100

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Cameron Simpson wrote:
>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.

What do you mean with generic buffers?
- fast virtual memory
- fast file access
- ??

I don't have any experience in this area, and I don't know what I should
optimize the code for.

Regards,
Manfred

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