Re: Rik spreading bullshit about VM

Richard Gooch
2002-01-16T20:58:59Z

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Andrea Arcangeli writes:
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> I read here:
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> http://linux.html.it/articoli/rik_van_riel_ita1.htm
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> [..] La nuova VM ha migliori performance rispetto alla vecchia sui
> tipici sistemi desktop ... ma fa fiasco terribilmente su più sistemi di
> quanto non lo facesse la vecchia VM. Redhat, per esempio, non ha potuto
> inserire la nuova VM nella sua distribuzione perché cadrebbe a pezzi per
> i database server, [..]
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> This is total bullshit. If there's something where the -aa VM is good
> are the DBMS, that was designed for it basically, very lightweight,
> basically no VM overhead also under very heavy I/O.

I don't know why you're so upset. As far as I can tell, Rik has warmly
praised your VM in the above message. Of course, since you didn't
provide an English translation, I can't really be sure. Perhaps Rik
was talking about Virtual Machines, and not Virtual Memory? Or perhaps
Virgin Mary?

Regards,

Richard....
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