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Hotplug Memory and the Linux VM

Overview This paper will describe the changes needed to the Linux memory management system to cope with adding or removing RAM from a running system. In addition to support for physically adding or removing DIMMs, there is an ever-increasing number of a virtualized environment such as UML or the IBM pSeries Hypervisor which can transition RAM between virtual system images, based on need. This paper will describe techniques common to all supported platforms, as well as challenges for specific architectures.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2004
Format	White Papers
Topics	Linux - Open Source, Linux Server OS, Virtualization

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