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On Monday 17 August 2009 at 3:15 pm, Maciek Kaliszewski penned
about "Re: [vbox-users] Memory Overcommit and Recursive Paging"

> For some people (me too :-) order of magnitude means *2 (binary
> system :-) 

ha!  I've never heard that ... I think `those people' are in the
minority .... :)

   [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude ]

> But I'm not quite sure ,but AFAIR memory allocated to guest cannot
> be swapped out . So in his case all physical memory is used up. Host
> lockup is inevitable :-)

It'll be swapped out (I've seen it on my box when I encountered the
Nvidia graphics driver memory leak) ... it's brutal!  :)

Cheers,
-- 
Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc
Ph:    819.459.1926      Fax:   760.860.5225 (US)


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