On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 04:30:07PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
> > What does that have to do with Virtual Memory (VM)?
> 
> Virtual Machine as in Java Virtual Machine?

Yeah except that's not what gaf meant, which was fairly clear from
context, which is why what you said made no sense.  He was talking
about memory management, where VM clearly means virtual memory, and
virtual machine is not especially interesting or relevant.

> Except that in production it isn't that simple, and the Linux kernel
> has been *very* vulnerable to memory fragmentation issues in the
> past.  

Really?  I've never heard of any such issues causing sweeping problems
in the sysadmin community...  You'd think that if the Linux kernel
had "been *very* vulnerable to memory fragmentation issues" you'd have
heard all sorts of reports about wide spread system crashes.  Methinks
you overstate the case by rather a lot.

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