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RISC-V chips will support replacing RAM sticks without powering off the system — hot plugging functionality arriving in newer flavors of Linux (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Apparently, there's some coordination mechanism, where you tell the OS that you want to remove a certain memory stick, so it moves all the memory onto other RAM sticks (or uses paging to move it to your hard drive). Only then would you actually physically unplug the memory stick.

See, for example: https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.html
(Mind that this is kernel documentation. If you actually want to do this, there's probably some CLI program to make it easier.)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Then it's not Hot Swap, just Lukewarm Swap?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

I guess, you could see it that way...? The important part is that you don't have to turn off the whole system. It can continue running without interruption. So, the RAM will be lukewarm when you swap it, but the system will still be hot.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

If you really want to be pedantic you could setup raid 1+0 or 5 and live the true RAM hot swapping life

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

So "warm plugging" is a thing - it means a piece of hardware is detachable while the machine is asleep.