> On Jul 5, 2016, at 12:30 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote:
> On Jul 5, 2016, at 9:26 AM, Steve Sisak <sgs-li...@codewell.com 
> <mailto:sgs-li...@codewell.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> If your customer is on a SAN with 250GB free it will work — also it gives 
>> you the option of backing your huge allocations on a different drive (or 
>> drives) than the system VM.
> 
> Yup. But subject to the usual caveat about mmap on non-boot volumes: If the 
> volume is disconnected (e.g. cord yanked out, or a network partition) all of 
> the mapped memory gets unmapped and will segfault on the next access.

Good point — but for what he’s doing (large mathematical simulations), that’s 
probably a fair tradeoff.

(They’ll have to re-run the simulation, but nobody’s going to die)

-Steve

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