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RE: [Xen-users] Q: swap and where?

To: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Q: swap and where?
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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:36:21 +0200
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On 17 Oct 2006 at 15:52, Petersson, Mats wrote:

[...]
> But you'll need 20GB of space (per guest) somewhere whichever way you do
> it - unless of course you have some special knowledge about the problem
> that explains that this will only happen predictably and sometimes so
> you can decide beforehand that you only need (say) a total of 40GB to
> hold 4 guests, because only two at a time will need 20GB... If that's
> the case, perhaps Xen is a bad choice. But if you don't know when and

The software vendor says it needs it, but in my experience it never actually 
needs 
it...

> how much memory each guest will need, you'll still need the space per
> guest, no matter what technology is used to give the virtual
> memory-space to the guest... 
> 
> --
> Mats
[...]


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