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OSPreservProject
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OSPreservProject / sprite

sprite

The sprite operating system

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What it is

The sprite operating system

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by day3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-09-11 17:55:10 UTC to 2026-09-21 15:05:37 UTC.

0122026-09-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsSep 112026-09-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 162026-09-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 21

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Sep 122026-09-12 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 132026-09-13 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 142026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 152026-09-15 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 162026-09-16 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 172026-09-17 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 182026-09-18 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 192026-09-19 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 202026-09-20 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 212026-09-21 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-22 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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spijdar·Sep 11, 2026
Why use swap files when we could have swap directories? ;-) Sprite had (IMO) a really interesting solution to swap. Each host had a directory, referenced by its host ID under the `/swap` directory, and inside that directory, individual segments of virtual memory would be saved: https://github.com/OSPreservProject/sprite/blob/master/src/k... Sprite overcommited memory like a modern OS, and stored segments individually so that process migration worked (if a segment was swapped-out, the path to the swap file would remain the same anywhere on the cluster, so if the process was migrated, you didn't need to swap-in the segment before migration): eery@cherimoya [1] > cd /swap eery@cherimoya [2] > ls 1 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 eery@cherimoya [3] > ls 3 1 113 129 148 161 172 185 20 218 238 252 33
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In Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead

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