Re^3: How can I let Perl use more than 3GB of RAM??

Of course the other option is to split the workload, if you have 18 gigs of RAM available and the application is able to split the work up among more than one process, then you can have 6 processes using 3 gigs of RAM each and use up all of that 18 gigs of RAM for your workload.

We're not surrounded, we're in a target-rich environment!

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Re^4: How can I let Perl use more than 3GB of RAM?? by CountZero (Bishop) on Jan 23, 2008 at 07:09 UTC
Wouldn't that be very slow with all these huge applications continuously swapping to disk and back? CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James	[reply]

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Re^4: How can I let Perl use more than 3GB of RAM??
by CountZero (Bishop) on Jan 23, 2008 at 07:09 UTC

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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