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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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[–] -1 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

I'm curious, does a 3 minutes power down to replace a RAM stick is that much of a deal in enterprise server that they need to invented a whole new technology just for that?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes. Server boot times are long. Enterprise level NICs and hard drive controllers do a lot of checking at startup.

    Historically, there were Sun servers that could hot swap CPUs. X86 can't do that, though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Many that weren't based on x86 microcompters could do this: Tandem, I mean, Compaq, I mean HP NonStop machines, Sun Ultra Enterprise as you mentioned, IBM s390 and System-Z, several HPUX systems, I'm sure there's others.

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