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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:11:24 +1100
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.cx>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] arbitrary size memory allocator, memarea-2.4.15-D6
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> Please point me to where you found a machine with 100 Gigabytes of RAM
> as I could realy make use of that here...

Really 128GB isnt that much RAM any more, and the negative effects from
deep hash chains will probably start hitting at ~8GB.

Most non-intel architectures (sparc64, alpha, ppc64) have booted Linux
with > 100GB RAM - we have run 256GB ppc64 machines.

Anton
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