From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261187AbVGTMQn (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:16:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261189AbVGTMQn (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:16:43 -0400 Received: from adminl.w2k.inl.nl ([132.229.188.116]:22793 "EHLO adminl.w2k.inl.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261187AbVGTMQn (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:16:43 -0400 From: Bastiaan Naber To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: a 15 GB file on tmpfs Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:16:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507201416.36155.naber@inl.nl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I am not sure if I can ask this here but I could not find any other place where I could fine anyone with this knowledge. I have a 15 GB file which I want to place in memory via tmpfs. I want to do this because I need to have this data accessible with a very low seek time. I want to know if this is possible before spending 10,000 euros on a machine that has 16 GB of memory. The machine we plan to buy is a HP Proliant Xeon machine and I want to run a 32 bit linux kernel on it (the xeon we want doesn't have the 64-bit stuff yet) Thanks in advance, Bastiaan