On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 11:46:36AM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > With PAE you can stick in a lot more RAM on x86-32, but then your > > bottleneck becomes the 3GB of virtual address space for a single > > process. > > Perhaps some kind of a hardware solution can be used. I.e. attaching > a pci with memory and addressing it's 64gb memory either directly > (if you have 64 bit bus) or in two phases. It can also be any RAM > space size you choose, but it will cost you (each additional bit > doubles your costs :) ).
Accessing memory on an external PCI adapter is *slow*. What you want to do is go 64 bit on the host, or barring that, use 32 bit + PAE and multiple address spaces (i.e., multiple processes). Cheers, muli ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
