On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:07:53 -0600, Mark Post wrote: >, "Rugen, Len" wrote: >> I'm not a linux expert, but the admins here want to build linux servers >> without swap space, so would that mean that they had no virtual storage? >> I tried to explain the difference in swap SIZE and RATE but they just >> kept repeating "ram is cheap". > >Hopefully you told them just how "not cheap" it is on a mainframe. >Even on midrange systems it isn't all that cheap when you get >into shared/virtualized environments. If the admin wants to give >64GB to every guest, you won't get many guests.
Oh, really? Sure you can. z/VM can handle it very nicely, thank you. >When I was supporting midrange Linux, we _never_ built >systems without page space. Really nasty things start to >happen if real storage runs short. To answer your question, >yes, that would mean they have no virtual storage. I take it you disagree with Tony Harminc's post. Paging is only one part of virtual storage. The other part is the mapping of virtual addresses to real addresses. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
