Will Hartung <willh@msoft.com> wrote:
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| "Barry Margolin" <barmar@genuity.net> wrote in message
| > Yep.  The garbage collector was called "reboot".
| 
| And in today's world, that may still be an option for large datasets.
| 
| That SGI machine with 512 CPU's and 10TB of memory...
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Sorry, "only" 1 TB of main RAM, not 10. <URL:http://www.sgi.com/origin/3000/>

(You can put *exabytes* of disk on it, if you like, but that's
another story... <URL:http://www.sgi.com/products/storage/cxfs.html>)

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| ...sounds like a fine system that could make use of modern "reboot"
| technology, then you don't have to worry about having a multi-cpu GC
| running. Doing a global GC on 10TB of heap doesn't sound pleasant to me.
| (Even properly broken up, that's still 20 GB per processor..*gulp*).
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More like 2 GB per CPU (in large configs, 4 GB per CPU in small ones).
Happier now?  ;-}  ;-}


-Rob

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