Am Dienstag, den 04.01.2005, 13:24 +0100 schrieb Arjan van de Ven: > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 04:11 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > A bit of googling indicates that the 4G:4G patch is needed for systems with > > a lot of RAM (eg. 32 GB or more) > > and for people with less ram but who want to run java with lots of > threads... in that case you care a lot about the extra 1Gb of userspace > address space. Even with a moderate amount of threads this makes the > java garbage collector run less frequently -> nicer performance ;) Well, remains the question, why the 4G:4G patch has been dropped now. Would be quite interesting to know (after all the pain that patch caused in some circumstances but which are mostly resolved now) Peter
