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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat,  3 Nov 2012 12:33:52 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Kernel panic when allocating a huge memory
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On Sat Nov  3 12:32:38 EDT 2012, khm-9@intma.in wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 11:40:05AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> >
> > does plan 9 run on any ultrabooks natively?  swapping within a vm?
> > my head hurts to think of it.
> >
>
> Your head hurts to think that sometimes extra memory is needed?  On the
> VMs I host for people, I partition 256 MB of memory.  This is not enough
> to compile python, so you turn on swap before mk, then turn it off again
> when you're done.  Or not.  I'm not a cop.
>
> Either way, nobody has died yet, or even complained about headaches.

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?

- erik