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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: Rik spreading bullshit about VM
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Andrea Arcangeli writes:
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> I read here:
> 
> 	http://linux.html.it/articoli/rik_van_riel_ita1.htm
> 
> 	[..] La nuova VM ha migliori performance rispetto alla vecchia sui
> 	tipici sistemi desktop ... ma fa fiasco terribilmente su pi? sistemi di
> 	quanto non lo facesse la vecchia VM. Redhat, per esempio, non ha potuto
> 	inserire la nuova VM nella sua distribuzione perch? cadrebbe a pezzi per
> 	i database server, [..]
>
> 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....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current:   rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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