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Giant Memory: x100 RAM = Virtual Memory on x86-64.

Submitted by Anonymous
on March 22, 2006 - 5:25pm

Why do unuse we the powerful hardware 2.0 GHz x86-64 with 4 GiB RAM because of lack of kernel's capabilities?

We need a kdynswapd64-like for x86-64 only to play to Giant Application like the Quake5 using 400 GiB of virtual memory, a big library of 3D-objects, D.B. of images, ...

Imagine an astronomical LAN of Athlon64s with the friends playing to Quake5.

‹ low_zone_protection Accessing data packet's attributes flowing thrugh kernel routing table ›

Oh man, if only english this

Anonymous (not verified)
on
March 22, 2006 - 7:24pm

Oh man, if only english this fellow spoke. Question of interest he may pose.

yeah, it reads like a viagra

sledge (not verified)
on
March 22, 2006 - 7:39pm

yeah, it reads like a viagra ad for comp. sci. geeks :P

I can only presume that the o

Anonymous (not verified)
on
March 23, 2006 - 8:06am

I can only presume that the only reason we have a forum for the "2.7 kernel" is to catch most of these insane posts and let us skip them. :)

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