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Jan
21
2012

Memory hotplug in Linux

VMware has a nice feature where you can add memory and CPUs on the fly without rebooting the server. It works like a charm in Windows, but it did not work out of the box in Linux.

The trick is to load the module acpi_memhotplug so that the Linux kernel discovers the new memory that you have added to the server. In addition, you might have to manually enable it in /sys

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