From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 12:51:00 -0400 From: Kurt H Maier To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20121103165100.GA63071@intma.in> References: <4A0E7310-9D9D-45C5-88A3-62B4A3191267@quintile.net> <20121103163103.GA48522@intma.in> <5cff355142bfe83410dce1c3fc321f25@kw.quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5cff355142bfe83410dce1c3fc321f25@kw.quanstro.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Kernel panic when allocating a huge memory Topicbox-Message-UUID: d1390b82-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 12:33:52PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > usually the vm does paging itself, and often more complicated things like > memory compression and deduplication. so why would the hosted os page as well? > Are you deliberately conflating swapping and paging?