If an agent fires up NPM, takes a boatload of memory, is that memory released back to the OS after NPM shuts down in the VM?
In principle yes, in practice it's complicated, using something called "balloon drivers"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_ballooning
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In principle yes, in practice it's complicated, using something called "balloon drivers"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_ballooning