Re: Rik spreading bullshit about VM

[Richard Gooch]

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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