2014-10-27 3:37 GMT+01:00 Mayuresh Kathe <[email protected]>: > From [email protected] Sun Oct 26 22:22:57 2014
Fix your mail client, please. > 256TB (2^48) should be good enough till 2020. > > it is for a lot of records (data-sets) to held in memory instead > of approaching the disk every time that data is requested. > the use-case is primarily for financial system, but, will also > hold 'gis' data going forward. > the owner of the system isn't rich enough to afford an 'ibm' > mainframe, hence a unix based system written in c89 under openbsd. > i am just the adviser/consultant. :) Then think a second about how large 256 TB are. And how long your machine will need to load 256 TB of data. And what 256 TB of RAM will cost. Today we see machines with 2TB. SGI UV 2000 goes up to 64TB with 256 CPUs. I seriously doubt that we will see OpenBSD in production on these machines. :-) What exactly is your application? Best Martin
