Re: Swap maximum size documented ?

From: Lennart Sorensen
Date: Wed Jun 01 2005 - 15:50:39 EST


On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 03:10:59PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Does this apply to mmap as well? I have an application which currently
> uses 9TB of data, and one thought to boost performance was to mmap the
> data. Unfortunately, I know 16TB isn't going to be enough for more than
> a few more years :-(

Just buy an Opteron/Athlon64 system and you should be able to mmap it
just fine. At least if you run an x86_64/amd64 kernel.

Len Sorensen
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