> From: brien colwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Any program that needs 8gb of RAM to run seems suspect. Large amounts
> of data should be abstracted through the filesystem and dealt with as
> files.
I have several programs that will cheerfully use 8G, or more, of RAM. In
general, they are large simulations or large searches where there is no obvious
subset of the search that can be pulled out and handled independently. There's
not sufficient locality of reference to page the data to disk in any ordered
way. For the one machine I need, it's far cheaper to pay the extra to
guarantee Enough RAM To Do The Job than it is to pay for the days of thinking
that *might* lead to a way of segmenting the problem.
They are not webapps. However, they need 8Gb of RAM to run, and they are not
suspect.
- Peter
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