Use Hard Drive as Ram for Hyper-V [closed]

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How to know the maximum capacity of memory/RAM of a server? [closed]

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On Unix/Linux OS machines are showing less memory [closed]

It’s difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, visit the help center. Closed 9 years ago. Why on Unix/Linux OS machines are showing less … Read more

Why is a 32bit OS limited to 4 GigaBytes of RAM? [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question What I don’t understand is where the 4 GigaBytes comes from. Most of the articles I read say that 2^32bits = 4 GigaBytes, … Read more

How to protect against in-RAM attacks

Since hosting providers are constantly under attack from hackers, encryption of the entire file system (the entire server) with tools like www.truecrypt.org seems like an absolute must to me, if you care about your users. Now, attacks are becoming more sophisticated and hosters should, by default, never be trusted. It is my understanding that system-wide … Read more

How many SSDs are needed to assure redundancy? [closed]

Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question If we consider, hypothetically, that a server farm is being designed to have 100TB of … Read more

Why does SUSE Linux not recognize the entire physical RAM?

We equipped our HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 computer with 512 Gigabytes (GB) of physical RAM. The computer’s BIOS correctly shows that 512 GB of physical memory are installed. But regrettably the operating system, SUSE Linux Enterprise Release 11 Service Pack 4, shows the total memory only with a size of 504.7 GB, which is much … Read more

How do I configure Linux to use less memory for IO caching? [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question I’m running a Dell R310 with CentOS 5.8 x64 and all it’s running is apache, svn, and postfix. It’s using 99% of the … Read more