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