Again: I'm surprised that you are surprised...

Again: I'm surprised that you are surprised...

Posted Jan 20, 2012 16:08 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: The future calculus of memory management by vlovich
Parent article: The future calculus of memory management

Maybe I'm missing details in the article, but how could you lease RAM from one machine to another?

This is called VM. As was already noted it's back to the future moment. Looks like PCs are so large and powerfulnow that we face the same problems mainframes faced eons ego.

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Virtual machines: old and new

Posted Jan 21, 2012 1:14 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (guest, #1954) [Link]

It's been about 10 years since x86 servers got virtual machine technology like that used on 1970s servers, because the economics of server granularity made it worthwhile. I don't know if the technology has completely caught up yet, but it's at least really close. The 1970s virtual machines did not have anything like the memory allocation intelligence we're talking about here.