Re:Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ ...
by okr on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @07:48PM
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I can imagine, OSes in general are not prepared to such reported numbers shrinking. There would be a hole.
What if a moment ago my OS has still 64G and then all of the sudden it only has 63G. Where would the data go? I think something has to make up for the loss.
For me it makes sense to report logically 64G and internally you do the remapping magic.
I wonder, how some OSes deal with a hot-swap of RAM. You have a big virtual address space and all of the sudden there is no physical memory behind it.
What if a moment ago my OS has still 64G and then all of the sudden it only has 63G. Where would the data go? I think something has to make up for the loss.
For me it makes sense to report logically 64G and internally you do the remapping magic.
I wonder, how some OSes deal with a hot-swap of RAM. You have a big virtual address space and all of the sudden there is no physical memory behind it.
Hm.