Re: [patch] arbitrary size memory allocator, memarea-2.4.15-D6

Anton Blanchard (anton@samba.org)
Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:11:24 +1100

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> Please point me to where you found a machine with 100 Gigabytes of RAM
> as I could realy make use of that here...

Really 128GB isnt that much RAM any more, and the negative effects from
deep hash chains will probably start hitting at ~8GB.

Most non-intel architectures (sparc64, alpha, ppc64) have booted Linux
with > 100GB RAM - we have run 256GB ppc64 machines.

Anton
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