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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:52:53 +1000
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 or so] Use 1TB segments
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Linas Vepstas writes:

> Gack. A system dump might take a while on these machines ... 

Why?  Using 1TB segments doesn't mean they have 1TB of RAM ...

Paul.