A potential drawback of lazy-allocation and over-commit is memory allocation might fail processes might randomly killed increased( I)/(O) latency slow network performance
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Lazy allocation refers to delaying the allocation of memory until it is actually needed, while over-commit allows a system to allocate more memory than is physically available, assuming that not all allocated memory will be used at the same time. Show more…
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