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PagedAttention applies virtual memory concepts to the KV cache in language models, reducing memory fragmentation and enabling inference engines to serve 2-4 times more users per GPU.
An article explaining why FreeBSD appears to use a lot of RAM, attributing it to disk caching and virtual memory management, similar to Linux's 'ate my RAM' phenomenon.
Introduces a free small book "Virtual Memory From First Principles", focusing on explaining virtual memory principles.
A comprehensive, book-level blog post covering virtual memory concepts in Linux, including page tables, TLBs, demand paging, copy-on-write, memory-mapped I/O, and performance implications, presented through a dialogue between a process and the kernel.