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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat,  3 Nov 2012 13:04:15 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Kernel panic when allocating a huge memory
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On Sat Nov  3 12:52:03 EDT 2012, khm-9@intma.in wrote:
> 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?

in modern systems, i believe they mean the same thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging#Terminology

> memory deduplication? is that true?

http://lwn.net/Articles/454795/

- erik