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Linus And Alan Settle On A New VM System

Posted by timothy on from the imagine-this-was-about-windows-developers dept.

stylewagon writes: "ZDNet are reporting that Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox have finally agreed on which Virtual Memory manager to include in future kernel releases. Both have agreed to use the newer VM, written by Andrea Arcangeli, from kernel version 2.4.10 onwards. Read more in the article."

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  1. Re:What is a vm? by chefren · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As pointed out by someone whose name I can't recall on the lkml, the best vm is no vm. If you want to be immune to vm bugs do this

    1. Calculate how much memory you use at MAXIMUM. Be pessimistic (double the result).
    2. Buy that much memory.
    3. Turn of swapping

    This is not a good approach for desktop machines, but a useful one for dedicated servers.