In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 12/20/2005
   at 10:18 AM, Jon Brock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>Not the point.

Yes it is.

>The point is that if I define a guest linux machine as having a size
>of 128 MB, then when linux is brought up under that guest it will
>know of only 128 MB. 

It will know of 128 MB even if CP has only given it 32 MB. It will not
be aware of CP paging and page stealing.

>You can issue VM commands to give the guest more memory, but you
>could also wave your arms and do cartwheels with the same effect; 

Red herring.

>Perhaps I am mistaken. 

You are. You are confusing performance recommendations with system
limitations.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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