Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 23:03:02 11/17/98
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On November 17, 1998 at 15:34:15, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >It's possible to handle huge files at PC using NT (there is >no such restriction on file size as in Linux), but to be >reasonable effective generator must use 1-2Gb of RAM (I'm >speaking not about my generator, but about generator that >is written especially with 6-man tables in mind). Also, you >must have necessary amount of disk space free. I have just looked this up. WinNT has a max partition size of 2TB (2,199,023,255,552 bytes), and with the NTFS file system, using a 64-bit file indexing, allowing file sizes of an amazing 16EB (exabytes)! (18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes), even though NT itself couldn't handle nearly such a big file, and of course no disk could come close to holding it either. Jeremiah >On November 17, 1998 at 13:03:53, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>But it really is moot... No PC's allow files that large today, because of the >>32 bit nature of the processor... you can't go beyond 4 gigs on any machine I >>know of until you step up to the alpha/etc 64 bit architectures... Yes it is >>"possible" to go beyond 4 gigs on a PC, but it makes handling the file index >>very messy... and I don't know of a system that does it...
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