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Space in a datacenter gets prohibitively expensive fast. You'd need a real nifty virtualization platform to oversell RAM like we currently oversell bandwidth a
by orik 13y ago
Space in a datacenter gets prohibitively expensive fast.
You'd need a real nifty virtualization platform to oversell RAM like we currently oversell bandwidth and cpu time.
A high performance swap farm might be the way to go with things, but things break when everyone starts using huge pages.
- wlesieutre 13y agoRight, the trouble with RAM is that if someone wants to keep a pile of data in memory, it has to stay loaded. I would hazard a guess that memory consumption on servers tends to be much less spiky than CPU is, and that's part of why a "DigitalOcean of RAM" is difficult to do.