From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261651AbVGUF6c (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:58:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261652AbVGUF6b (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:58:31 -0400 Received: from mx.freeshell.ORG ([192.94.73.21]:29419 "EHLO sdf.lonestar.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261651AbVGUF6b (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:58:31 -0400 From: Jim Nance Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 02:13:53 +0000 To: Antonio Vargas Cc: Erik Mouw , Miquel van Smoorenburg , naber@inl.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs Message-ID: <20050721021353.GA23309@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <200507201416.36155.naber@inl.nl> <20050720132006.GI7050@harddisk-recovery.com> <20050720144421.GK7050@harddisk-recovery.com> <69304d1105072008237dd21e08@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <69304d1105072008237dd21e08@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 05:23:52PM +0200, Antonio Vargas wrote: > Most probably the cost of programming and debugging the hand-made > paging on 32bit machines will cost more than the difference for a > 64bit machine. I'll second that. There may not even be a price difference. I've had quotes for otherwise comprable 32 bit Xeon servers come in more expensive than 64 bit AMD machines. One piece of advice I would offer is to make sure you buy good ECC memory. I've been working with large servers for the last few years, and trying to be cheap with memory has caused a lot of hard to track down problems. - Jim -- jlnance@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org