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Re:I spent 5 years writing my own operating system by jcelerier on Sunday June 27, 2021 @06:55AM (#27650480)
> With Terabyte (TB) RAM computers becoming the norm in the near future

I don't know in which world you live but in mine people still mostly buy 4, sometimes 8GB of ram laptops

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Re:I spent 5 years writing my own operating system by pocket_cheese on Sunday June 27, 2021 @07:15AM (#27650590)
I think he was talking about the clusters of machines used in big data. Both in processing (Spark) and storage (SAP HANA). These use cases can need TBs of ram.
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Re:I spent 5 years writing my own operating system by rualca on Sunday June 27, 2021 @07:18AM (#27650612)
> These use cases can need TBs of ram.

These use cases can need TBs of RAM, but they don't get it in a single node but as a distributed system with tens of GB of RAM per node.

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Re:I spent 5 years writing my own operating system by hughrr on Sunday June 27, 2021 @08:50AM (#27651173)
Um, err we have a few tens of 1.5TB memory nodes lurking around. There are plenty of use cases for that out there.
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Re:I spent 5 years writing my own operating system by majewsky on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:16AM (#27659607)
I work in a cloud environment where SAP HANA databases are provisioned. We offer VMs with multible TiB RAM for the larger HANAs.
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Re:I spent 5 years writing my own operating system by rualca on Sunday June 27, 2021 @07:16AM (#27650598)
> I don't know in which world you live but in mine people still mostly buy 4, sometimes 8GB of ram laptops

Not only that, but those terabytes are actually distributed systems running at most a few hundreds of megabytes of ram in each node.

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Re:I spent 5 years writing my own operating system by alexanderdmitri on Sunday June 27, 2021 @12:43PM (#27653040)
You can get a node with ~26.4TB memory on AWS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/memory-o...
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Re:I spent 5 years writing my own operating system by pkAbstract on Sunday June 27, 2021 @07:16AM (#27650596)
I suppose what one considers the near future is relative.
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Re:I spent 5 years writing my own operating system by neop1x on Sunday June 27, 2021 @04:41PM (#27655105)
He is probably not talking about Macbooks
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Re:I spent 5 years writing my own operating system by papito on Sunday June 27, 2021 @10:55AM (#27652056)
With multiple accounts and VMs running Linux, which in turn run a JVM and a heavy IDE, my Mac Mini is at 64GB, and it needs all of it.
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