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Memory Overcommitment

Memory Overcommitment is a virtual memory management technique in which a system allocates more memory to processes than is physically available, relying on the statistical likelihood that not all allocated memory will be simultaneously accessed, thereby enabling more efficient utilization of physical memory resources.

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Authors

6

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Memory Over-commitment

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Publications

6

VSwapper

Nadav Amit, Dan Tsafrir, Assaf Schuster · 2014 · 75 citations

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Applications Know Best: Performance-Driven Memory Overcommit with Ginkgo

Michael R. Hines, Abel Gordon, Márcio Silva et al. · 2011 · 68 citations

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Proactively Breaking Large Pages to Improve Memory Overcommitment Performance in VMware ESXi

Fei Guo, Seongbeom Kim, Yury Baskakov et al. · 2015 · 50 citations

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Hotplug or Ballooning: A Comparative Study on Dynamic Memory Management Techniques for Virtual Machines

Haikun Liu, Hai Jin, Xiaofei Liao et al. · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 2014 · 49 citations

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Memory Overcommit… without the commitment

Dan Magenheimer, Oracle Corp · 2008 · 32 citations

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Authors

21

  1. DT
    Dan Tsafrir

    Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

    2 publications · 85 citations

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  2. AS
    Assaf Schuster

    Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

    2 publications · 85 citations

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  3. NA
    Nadav Amit

    Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

    2 publications · 85 citations

    2

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  4. HL
    Haikun Liu

    China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China

    1 publications · 49 citations

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  5. HJ
    Hai Jin

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

    1 publications · 49 citations

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Institutions

6

  1. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

    Haifa, Israel

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    255 citations

  2. Wayne State University

    Detroit, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    49 citations

  3. Huazhong University of Science and Technology

    Wuhan, China

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    196 citations

  4. Kitware (United States)

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    100 citations

  5. IBM (United States)

    Armonk, United States

    1 h-index

    6 publications

    408 citations

  6. Nanyang Technological University

    Singapore, Singapore

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    49 citations

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Venues

  1. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

    TPDS · 1 publications · 49 citations

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  2. ACM SIGPLAN Notices

    1 publications · 10 citations

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