Re: Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed?

Mike Jagdis
2002-05-23T12:40:09Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> And let's not _just_ blame oracle, maybe other uses can actually be found
> for this (eg XFree86 for UMA graphics cards etc might actually want to use
> something like this eventually).

Out here in bioinformatics land we have frequent games of "my data
set is bigger than your data set" and lots of the processing we do
is the sort of thing that could really benefit from big paged VM!

Mike