On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 01:25 +0200, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
Where workload seems to be something other than "light desktop
use"
or even "light server use". Is there any <=1GB of RAM case
where it helps at all? Besides, anyone sane running a memory
intensive app will get a x86_64 box where the 4:4 kludgery is not needed.
there's the "lots of threads" case (for example, java). Thread stacks
are typically 8Mb in virtual space but *sparse*, so even with 1Gb ram
you easily get to fill 4Gb with such stacks.