Re: using more than 2 GB as a ram disk

Cameron Simpson (cs@zip.com.au)
Tue, 2 Feb 1999 23:05:10 +0000

On 3 Feb 1999, in message <003b01be4ed1$1f627470$c80c17ac@clmsdev>
"Manfred Spraul" <masp0008@stud.uni-sb.de> 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.

Fast VM I would say. You tend to load a simulation and churn over it.

Now, I have missed the first few items in the thread - I read it to say
you can't get more than 2G of VM at present. If we're talking about
something else and I'm speaking nonsense, please let me know.

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