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It’s a common technique though. I believe it’s called oversubscription, where you rent the same hardware to more tenants hoping they won’t use it all at once.

Fly.io themselves admitted they’re oversubscribed and AWS is doing the same for years now

Source: https://fly.io/blog/the-serverless-server/



We're not using virtio memory ballooning right now (we've never had the time to get it working).




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