Cat on (RAM) steroids

[Oron Peled]

On Saturday, 4 בFebruary 2012 16:27:27 Eli Billauer wrote:
> ...
> Rationale: The (kernel) device /dev/datasource has limited RAM it can 
> allocate in kernel space.
> ...
> So if data is loaded into a huge RAM array (what is 256 MB these days?) 

I fail to see why the kernel driver would be more limited in RAM
allocation than the utility you want?

After all, RAM is RAM if you have enough for the application to
use (you asked for non-pageable memory), than why can't the
kernel driver allocate it just the same and be done with it?

Bye,

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