booting Linux inside MOL (was RE: mac-on-linux freeze)

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On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:30:52PM -0500, Greg Alexander wrote:
> Two words: Workload consolidation.
> 
> This is incredibly useful, and is what IBM does with LOTS of their
> servers.
> 
> If the performance is good, you can run two linux installations on the
> same machine, 

I think one can achieve reasonable performance with MOL. It is a lot
simpler to write good device drivers for Linux/MOL than MacOS/MOL
(and idle cpu cycles are easier to reclaim). The MMU code is 
more stressed in the Linux case though. At the moment the code 
is somewhat tuned to MacOS/MOL (but I know how to make it perform
well well in the Linux/MOL situation).

>This makes me wonder, can multiple instances of MOL run on the same
>machine?

This is supported feature. One probably has to tweak the size of 
certain tables in order to optimize things though.

Cheers,

/Samuel