| Date | Fri, 18 Jan 2002 05:30:33 +0100 (CET) | From | Bosko Radivojevic <> | Subject | Re: Rik spreading bullshit about VM |
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Erik Mouw wrote:
> Some time ago Linus made the important observation that we shouldn't > tune the scheduler for SMP systems simply because 99.9% of the systems > in the world running linux have a single CPU. IMHO an equally well > observation would be that we shouldn't tune the VM for the 0.1% of the > systems in this world that run large DMBSes. The 99.9% majority is much > more important.
There is a way to fulfill both needs. If my systems are part of that 0.1%, I have to disagree with you. :)
There is no way to make one good VM for all possible situations. But, you can tune/make one VM to work great on large DBMS (e.g.) and tune/make another one to work great on ordinary desktop systems (playing mp3s & co). So, add different VMs as kernel-config options. The 'default' one should be VM for 99.9% users. Everybody happy? :)
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