system memory hogged by multiple OS's running on machine?

Hello OrionXV,

Each Linode's memory is allocated on the physical host - so there is no "sharing" or no way that the memory for your Linode will ever "swap out" on the host.

We don't over-commit the resources on our machines, including RAM.

Linodes work like a real physical Linux machine - if you have a Linode 64, you've got 64 MBs of real ram to work with - so your applications that run would take away from that.

Hope I answered your question!

-Chris

Thanks for your quick reply.

But doesn't my instance of Linux also use up some of my alloted memory? So if i have a linode 64, i will have 64 - x MB availabe for apps, where x = the amount used by my OS. ??

@Anonymous:

Thanks for your quick reply.

But doesn't my instance of Linux also use up some of my alloted memory? So if i have a linode 64, i will have 64 - x MB availabe for apps, where x = the amount used by my OS. ??
The Linux kernel, itself uses about 4MB of memory which it reserves. This is just like a physical Linux machine.

Thanks,

-Chris