Memory overcommitment
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Memory overcommitment
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Memory overcommitment is a concept in computing that covers the assignment of more memory to virtual computing devices than the physical machine they are hosted, or running on, actually has. This is possible because virtual machines do not necessarily use as much memory at any one point as they are assigned, creating a buffer. If four virtual machines each have 1 GB of memory on a physical machine with 4 GB of memory, but those virtual machines are only using 500 MB, it is possible to create add
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2023-03-27T14:18:08Z
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