> A friend of mine has a machine which is being used for certain
> numerical problems. The system has 512 MB RAM and another 1.5
> Gig of RAM. The memory objects in use are usually contiguous
On a side note, when you know in advance that you will be using (far) more
memory than is available as RAM, there are better ways to solve your problem
than to (ab)use a huge swapfile.
Regards,
bert hubert.
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