I guess you are right. You might wish to have a look to note 4, on page 26 of Jeff Dike's book on UML, which explains the performance pitfall that may come out of having both the host and the guest use virtual memory.
cheers alessandro On 7/19/06, Nic James Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any point at all in having a swap file assigned to a UML > virtual machine? (other than testing swap) > > Since the UML is obtaining it's memory from the host virtual memory I > figure that it is better to simply assign a larger memory to each UML > instance than to assign each UML a swap file. > > Does this make sense? > > -- > Nic Ferrier > http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > User-mode-linux-user mailing list > User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user > -- Alessandro Salvatori ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
