Checking the Dell web site this morning, a Power Edge T710 configured with two CPUs and 72Gbyte of RAM was priced at less than 5,500 USD.
If such a machine is used for a single application running J then presumably one would set the swap file to zero. At the moment the J programmer has little say in how J manages its memory. With 72G would it be useful if the user had some control over this? Has anyone actually tried building applications with such large amounts of real memory? I suppose that managing persistent copies of things in memory requires some new thinking. What other problems can be foreseen? Regards David ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
