If an agent fires up NPM, takes a boatload of memory, is that memory released back to the OS after NPM shuts down in the VM?
replyIn principle yes, in practice it's complicated, using something called "balloon drivers"
replyThere’s also memory hotplugging via virtio-mem. But generally speaking downscaling live vm memory can’t be said to be a solved problem, it’s more of an active area of research.
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