Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:49:45 -0400 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, Freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: _real_ ram disk needed ... Message-ID: <15209.41161.658146.175559@trooper.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108021345350.41008-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <15209.36726.676011.413494@trooper.velocet.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108021345350.41008-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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>>>>> "Julian" == Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes: Julian> It might be possible to make a device that could acces > 4GB Julian> using the new paging methods available in PIII but it might Julian> require suspending th erest of the OS while you do it, and Julian> having a 4MB 'window' into which you COPY data to and from the Julian> extended space. (still it may be faster than disk) Well... I also suspect that you could "hack" something up that split the address space among several processes, but the requirement that writing not block is more important than absoutely getting to 6 gig. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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