Subject: Swap and memory overcommit
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Lucio De Re <lucio@cackle.proxima.alt.za>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/15/1999 06:13:41
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 04:16:20PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> This creates a dependancy between two completely independant processes
> possibly owned two totally unrelated users. This is not acceptable,
> and is precisely why this sort of behavior does not occur.
>
Doesn't this spell "virtual machine"? It's something that's been bugging
me for a while, and gave me great pleasure to test VMWare and find it very
close to the _real_ <grin> thing.
++L