Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:39:54 -0600 (CST) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: vm philosophising |
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Bosko Radivojevic wrote: > > > 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 > > This is an interesting assertion ... but up to date nobody has > been able to tell me what exactly should be different between > these two mythical VMs ;)
There is another VM that has a property that people would like: deterministically handling memory exhaustion. Unfortunately, that VM probably can't co-exist with over-commit and the performance gains that affords.
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