if you run two distros on a dual cpu machine at
the
same time (one distro per cpu), you will need two separate swap partitions --
The point of two processors is that you can run two processes simultaneously, at exactly the same time. It has nothing to do with whether you have 1, 2 or 3 distros running simultaneously (time shared).
Yup. Correct. That's the philosophy behind multiprocessing.
In fact, the more I think about this, the more I'm convinced that it's even possible to run multiple distros simultaneously on a single processor machine. All you need to do is segregate memory and swap correctly. I think IBM does this on their big machines.
All I wanted to ask was that I havent heard of any solutions till now which do this. The ones which were in place are on Mainframes which you mentioned as big machines. On server grade computing these are still unheard of. Probably that's what Kenneth Gonzalez is working on.Seems like the poor guy is in stealth mode.
===== Harshal Vaidya.
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