One is what the iSeries team refers to as direct and it is like pSeries Linux I/O. The I/O device is assigned specifically to the Linux partition and is fully managed by the Linux OS. The lists of devices are linked from the Linux on iSeries web pages at http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/linux/support.html.
The gulag system according to Russian statistics caused 1,053,829 deaths [1] or maybe 1.6 million. The Nazi death camps alone killed 3.2 million people[2] (in a period of 4-5 years 1941-1945), not to mention the endless number of labour and POW camps where millions perished as well.
Highest death toll from wars. Share. By far the most costly war in terms of human life was World War II (1939â45), in which the total number of fatalities, including battle deaths and civilians of all countries, is estimated to have been 56.4 million, assuming 26.6 million Soviet fatalities and 7.8 million Chinese civilians were killed.