[plug] maximum RAM linux can cope with

[Adrian Chadd]

On Tue, May 08, 2007, Ian Kent wrote:

> So if your app needs to handle large amounts of data in program memory
> you need to go for a 64-bit machine.

Or out here in Ghetto-land, when it was easier to get PAE SMP servers + RAM
over 64 bit machines, we used to break the computational/processing tasks
up into multiple processes. Shared data/IPC through a small mmap() with
the rest of user RAM as per-process private data.
We could then process > 3 gig of accounting data at a time.

Not that I'd suggest doing -that- crap these days. :)




Adrian