2010/5/27 Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac <lscarne...@veltrac.com.br> > > Forgive me for the noob question (i'm a newbie at openbsd), but if i want >>> to build, for example, a large squid cache using openbsd, in a server with >>> BIIIG ram (12gb+), i will no be able to use the full memory space? is this >>> what you guys are saying? >>> >>> >> >> That is correct. 12G of ram for web cache? Why not a better disk >> instead? >> > Hi Marco, tks for your anwser. Maybe i have not choosed the best example, > but the question is answered. > IMHO, this serious limits the use of OpenBSD in tasks that takes huge > memory space to execute. There is an serious effort to avoid this > limitation? > > Maybe people need to sit down and invent cases in order to figure out why this is a REAL, SERIOUS ISSUE(tm) and later figure that the invented case wasn't valid, but there must be an ISSUE anyhow.
Sure, everybody wants to use all ram, but unless someone says "it might blow up if you experiment", I'd rather stick to a 3+ G squid cache than experiment with bouncebuffered devices and I-dont-know-how-well-it-works-IOMMUs if I was serious about web caching. -- To our sweethearts and wives. May they never meet. -- 19th century toast
