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Most normal people also don't keep large amounts of data or long running programs in memory for long periods of time, which is the case that is most vulnerable
by gh02t 11y ago
Most normal people also don't keep large amounts of data or long running programs in memory for long periods of time, which is the case that is most vulnerable.
- codinghorror 11y agois this even true of a typical server workload? I guess it depends on the server and the work, but certainly for a webserver, this doesn't seem true.
- gh02t 11y agoIt's true of databases or storage servers that rely heavily on caching in RAM (like with ZFS). Also many HPC workloads, which might be storing e.g. huge matrices distributed in memory over many nodes.