> On 3 Oct 2016, at 08:32, Jan Matejka <jan.mate...@nic.cz> wrote: > > OTOH, the memory consumed by 100 Bird instances is still consumed, you > just save the memory and power for running more instances of operating > system.
Actually only the memory for the data is 'still consumed'. The code pages should be shared between instances assuming the same bird binary is run in each. Code pages are also potentially shared between VMs with kernel samepage merging, but that won't work AFAIK with Virtualbox on OS-X. -- Alex Bligh