Janne Johansson wrote:
quoted text > 2010/5/27 Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac <lscarneiro@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.
It's not because you or me didn't said about an example that use tons of
RAM, doesn't mean that such scenarios does not exist. I develop a
application in java that serves more than ten thousand clients, and in
top hours it's sure to use at least 2,5gb (this single process). I
didn't want to expose my personal example, but if you want one, here it is.
