Re: Any limitations on bigmem usage?

[Matt Nelson]

Thanks to all that replied.  I've never needed to use so much memory before, and 
was ignorant to how much magic was implemented in the 64G support on IA32. 
Unfortunately, there's not quite enough magic in there for my needs... now to 
find an affordable SMP Alpha system....

Thanks again,

-Matt

Matt Nelson wrote:

> I am about to embark on a data processing software project that will 
> require a LOT of memory (about, ohhh, 6GB or so), and I was wondering if 
> there are any limitations to how one can use very large chunks of memory 
> under Linux. Specifically, is there anything to prevent me from 
> malloc()ing 6GB of memory, then accessing that memory as I would any 
> other buffer?  FYI, the application
> will be buffering a stream of data, then performing a variety of 
> calculations on large blocks of data at a time, before writing it out to 
> a socket.
> 
> I've been eyeing an 8-way Intel box with gobs of memory, but if there 
> are subtle issues with using that much memory, I need to know now.
> 
> I haven't seen this specifcally addressed, so I figured I should ask you 
> folk. Any insights/comments/reccomendations would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt
> 

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