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memory ballooning: a standalone construct

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Operating systems

reclaiming memory from virtual machines by inflating a driver inside the guest so the guest itself chooses which pages to give up.

In operating systems, memory ballooning refers to reclaiming memory from virtual machines by inflating a driver inside the guest so the guest itself chooses which pages to give up. This meaning comes from Waldspurger (2002) in ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review.[1]

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driver2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs memory6 fields · 18 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Waldspurger, C. A. (2002). Memory resource management in VMware ESX server. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 36(SI), 181-194. https://doi.org/10.1145/844128.844146

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