Who am I? Specimens of choice when looking for me are blood,…

Who am I? Specimens of choice when looking for me are blood, CSF, nasopharyngeal swabs/aspirates, joint fluids, and rarely sputum and urogenital sites. Regular blood culture bottles containing SPS can kill me. I like both glucose and maltose. I have infected laboratory personnel before – so watch out! Who am I?

(The context for this question is the same as the previous q…

(The context for this question is the same as the previous question) In virtualized environments, the hypervisor often needs to manage memory overcommitment across multiple VMs running commodity Operating Systems. VMWare ESX Server introduces statistical active memory sampling mechanisms to drive its allocation policies.  How does the ESX Server estimate the active working set of a VM? Describe the specific mechanism step-by-step, from the start of the sampling to the final equation of active memory estimation.