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virtual-memory

7 notes carry this tag — 5 claims, 1 capture, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  The one thing 1968 didn't have a word for
  essay draft 2026-07-13 · LLM, inference, KV-cache, virtual-memory, operating-systems

Everything else

• The 1959 Manchester Atlas was the first operating system with virtual memory — called a 'one-level store' — and the idea was contested for a decade
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · virtual-memory, operating-systems, history-of-computing, manchester-atlas, denning
• 'Thrashing' — near-total performance collapse under multiprogramming — was solved by Denning's 1968 working-set model
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · virtual-memory, operating-systems, thrashing, working-set-model, denning
• Modern LLM-serving systems reimport OS memory-pressure vocabulary intact — vLLM preempts and recomputes KV cache, and llm-d names cache-eviction churn 'cache thrashing'
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · LLM, inference, KV-cache, vLLM, llm-d
• PagedAttention manages the LLM KV cache with a literal port of OS virtual-memory paging — blocks as pages, tokens as bytes, requests as processes
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · LLM, inference, KV-cache, PagedAttention, vLLM
• Pure recency-based KV-cache eviction fails past the cache size — StreamingLLM shows keeping initial tokens ('attention sinks') is required, breaking a clean locality analogy to OS working sets
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · LLM, inference, KV-cache, attention-sinks, streaming-llm
• LLM serving re-imported 1960s virtual-memory theory wholesale — pages, thrashing, and all
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · LLM, inference, KV-cache, virtual-memory, operating-systems