[Vm-dev] linux 64bit vm running a 32 bit images - networking vm crash

[Chris Muller]

I don't want a 4GB image, but I may want a lot of normal-sized Squeak
images running on a piece of "big-iron".  But I guess the current VM's
have some problem where the oop was defined as signed, so images
cannot even *reside* above 1GB (or whatever it is).

So even if that was fixed, that would take 32-bit Squeak up to 4GB
boundary, only if all 32-bits were for the oop.

... I saw this ad on the back of InfoRag earlier today.  Some IBM
blade, multi-Xeon-multi-core, up to 48GB high-speed RAM, "starting" at
$2K.  Cool, this could probably run a lot of images simultaneously,
but how far could you go with 32-bit Squeak on this?


On 5/30/07, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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> Martin - and others of course - what exactly do you want a 64bit vm
> for? Do you really need more than 4gb sized object memory spaces?
> What benefit is there to running a 64bit integer baesed vm with a
> 32bit oop based image? Perhaps I'm forgetting something but it
> doesn't seem like anything terribly useful.
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> tim
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