How To Use a Terabyte of RAM

How To Use a Terabyte of RAM 424

Posted by kdawson on Thursday March 20, 2008 @03:35PM from the every-factor-of-25-helps dept.

Spuddly writes with links to Daniel Philips and his work on the Ramback patch, and an analysis of it by Jonathan Corbet up on LWN. The experimental new design for Linux's virtual memory system would turn a large amount of system RAM into a fast RAM disk with automatic sync to magnetic media. We haven't yet reached a point where systems, even high-end boxes, come with a terabyte of installed memory, but perhaps it's not too soon to start thinking about how to handle that much memory.

How To Use a Terabyte of RAM

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1 TB of memory... (Score:5, Funny)

by Digi-John ( 692918 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @03:38PM (#22810556) Journal

Finally, I'll have enough space to run Firefox, OpenOffice, and Eclipse *all at the same time*! As long as I don't leave Firefox running too long.

One Terabyte (Score:4, Funny)

by Cedric Tsui ( 890887 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @03:39PM (#22810586)

One Terabyte ought to be enough for anybody.

Re:One Terabyte (Score:5, Funny)

by Captain Splendid ( 673276 ) writes: <capsplendid@@@gmail...com> on Thursday March 20, 2008 @03:40PM (#22810606) Homepage Journal

One Terabyte ought to be enough for anybody.

Obviously you're running windows XP, not Vista!

Windows 7? (Score:4, Funny)

by Lectoid ( 891115 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @03:41PM (#22810624)

See also, Windows 7 minimum requirements.

Vista SP1 (Score:4, Funny)

by sakdoctor ( 1087155 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @03:42PM (#22810634) Homepage

Is that the recommended or minimum requirement?

8 GB (Score:5, Funny)

by Rinisari ( 521266 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @03:42PM (#22810644) Homepage Journal

I have 8 GB of RAM and rarely use more than four of it unless I'm playing a 64-bit game which eats it up (Crysis). Yes, I am running both 64-bit Linux and Windows.

One time, I opened up more than a thousand tabs in Firefox just because I could.

Re:1 TB of memory... (Score:5, Funny)

by smittyoneeach ( 243267 ) * writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @03:44PM (#22810672) Homepage Journal

You are wise to avoid discussion of emacs...

Re:You only need 16GB of RAM for this to be useful (Score:3, Funny)

by Digi-John ( 692918 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @03:48PM (#22810732) Journal

640K should be enough for anyone.

The problem with giving Windows 1TB... (Score:5, Funny)

by Gybrwe666 ( 1007849 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @03:49PM (#22810748)

The System Tray would end up filling most of my dual monitors with all the crap Microsoft will inevitably find "necessary" to run the OS, leaving me with a small, 640x480 patch and approximately 640k for applications.

How ? (Score:5, Funny)

by herve_masson ( 104332 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @03:49PM (#22810770)

// Use 1TB of RAM
char *ptr=malloc(1099511627776);
memset(ptr,1,1099511627776);

Re:1 TB of memory... (Score:5, Funny)

by digital bath ( 650895 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @04:01PM (#22810936) Homepage

Of course, there's quite a few complete operating systems that can boot in the amount of RAM required by emacs :)

emacs, for starters

Re:1 TB of memory... (Score:5, Funny)

by osu-neko ( 2604 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @04:02PM (#22810958)

Of course, there's quite a few complete operating systems that can boot in the amount of RAM required by emacs

Yes, but they're substantially less functional operating systems than Emacs.

Re:Cache as RAM, RAM as hard disk (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @04:06PM (#22811006)

Don't forget to add a racing stripe. It will make it go faster too.

Oh yea? (Score:5, Funny)

by SeePage87 ( 923251 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @04:10PM (#22811078)

Well I can do cock push-ups.

Re:1 TB of memory... (Score:5, Funny)

by rbanffy ( 584143 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @04:56PM (#22811774) Homepage Journal

It's a nice OS. Too bad it lacks a decent text editor ;-) /me ducks

Re:1 TB of memory... (Score:3, Funny)

by wsanders ( 114993 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @05:02PM (#22811844) Homepage

Yeah, I look forward to our new "java -Xms1000000000" incompetent overlords.

Re:1 TB of memory... (Score:5, Funny)

by Shai-kun ( 728212 ) writes: <jeroenc AT jscwebdesign DOT nl> on Thursday March 20, 2008 @05:20PM (#22812072)

Doesn't emacs run vi by now?

Re:1 TB of memory... (Score:5, Funny)

by masterzora ( 871343 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @05:37PM (#22812290)

Fortunately, you can run vi inside emacs, so it does indeed have a good text editor.

memory test (Score:3, Funny)

by Skapare ( 16644 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @06:07PM (#22812558) Homepage

You better skip the memory test.

Re:1 TB of memory... (Score:4, Funny)

by blair1q ( 305137 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @06:27PM (#22812776) Journal

You don't customize emacs. It customizes you.

Re:1 TB of memory... (Score:3, Funny)

by yorde ( 1048562 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @08:11PM (#22813872)

this http://xkcd.com/350/ [xkcd.com]

Re:1 TB of memory... (Score:3, Funny)

by Arethan ( 223197 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @08:42PM (#22814158) Journal

At least they come with a decent text editor.

Re:1 TB of memory... (Score:4, Funny)

by BiggerIsBetter ( 682164 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @09:55PM (#22814636)

You don't customize emacs. It customizes you.
In Russia.

Re:1 TB of memory... (Score:2, Funny)

by 313373_bot ( 766001 ) writes: on Thursday March 20, 2008 @10:02PM (#22814680)

My very own internets?

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Windows 7? (Score:4, Funny)

Vista SP1 (Score:4, Funny)

8 GB (Score:5, Funny)

Re:1 TB of memory... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:You only need 16GB of RAM for this to be useful (Score:3, Funny)

The problem with giving Windows 1TB... (Score:5, Funny)

How ? (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:Cache as RAM, RAM as hard disk (Score:1, Funny)

Oh yea? (Score:5, Funny)

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memory test (Score:3, Funny)

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