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Re:Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected by lacunary on Thursday January 15, 2026 @09:11PM (#46642202)
it has to cost some amount in reserved capacity too. for every n suspended machines there is some small fraction of a machine's cpu/ram capacity that must be kept in reserve, like in a fractional lending system.
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Re:Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected by fooker on Friday January 16, 2026 @04:15AM (#46644593)
You can 'suspend' to SSD/aka hibernate.

Can be pretty fast.

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Re:Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected by account42 on Friday January 16, 2026 @07:12AM (#46645679)
I think gp means that when a customer wants to connect to the VM there needs to be hardware (CPU and RAM) available to run it. While this can be less than the total number of (suspended) VMs it has to have some buffer of "unused" hardware to account for usage spikes that still needs to be paid for.
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Re:Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected by littlestymaar on Friday January 16, 2026 @11:26AM (#46648223)
I think gp's argument was that you must have enough capacity to run peak load, which will be way above average load.
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