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Disable virtual memory in Windows 8 is good? [duplicate]
I have an ultrabook hybrid with a SSD (mSata) and HDD working with intel rapid storage and my PC has 6 GB of ram. So I want to know if I can disable virtual memory and what other things should I do to ...
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Why should the size of the page file increase the more memory you have? [duplicate]
I think I understand the purpose of the page file; if the computer runs out of physical memory, the page file is needed to have additional (virtual) memory - very simply said.
Since Windows 2000 I ...
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Mysterious missing half the RAM, although windows reports it's usable [duplicate]
My Windows 10 64bit PC has 16GB of physical RAM:
C:\>wmic MEMORYCHIP get BankLabel, DeviceLocator, Capacity
BankLabel Capacity DeviceLocator
BANK 0 17179869184 ChannelA-DIMM0
Also under ...
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Pagefile.sys fills dedicated SSD [duplicate]
I have 64 GB of memory. I have been told that this is way more than I need, and that I don't need Virtual Memory.
Despite that advice, I do have a 40 Gig SSD that is dedicated to VM and scratch files ...
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Virtual Memory being utilised when plenty of RAM is avalible [duplicate]
I use RainMeter (Desktop Customisation Tool) and It comes with a widget that displays real-time RAM and Virtual Memory usage, and ever since I've had it - it always displays at least 10%-30% SWAP ...
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Windows Swap (Page File): Enable or Disable?
From my personal experience I've noticed that disabling the page file in Windows XP has given me, in general, the most speed gain out of any other software change I can make. Obviously this has to be ...
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What happens when linux OS out of RAM and no swap
What happens when linux OS is out of RAM and no swap is available?
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What's wrong with disabling the Windows page file?
People say that you always need a page file, and that it will increase performance, but my Windows 7 is set to run without a page file. I simply don't understand why people say this - I have 6 GiB of ...
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How to handle out of memory on windows 7?
I'm using a windows 7 Pro for development related to SQL Server. And I've received an exception of out of memory in Visual Studio 2010 :
Microsoft Visual Studio is unable to load this document:
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Disabling pagefile in windows 10
I read a lot about disabling pagefile pretty much everywhere and some places tell you that doing so is a great thing for performance (given a lot of ram) and other places tell you that even with a ...
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Windows: Pagefile on RAMDisk beneficial in some cases?
I want to disable my page file in Windows 7. The reason is I'm running a complex virtual environment where disk writes are REALLY slow, so I want to minimize Windows writing to disk.
My problems is ...
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Windows 7 Swapping Threshold
When physical memory jumps to 80%, the RAM starts swapping itself to pagefile.
How to increase this 80% threshold to say 90% ?
I have 4GB of RAM which means the swapping starts when 3.2GB of RAM is ...
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Why does a computer need a swapfile?
I searched with “Why do I need a swapfile?” and “Why does a computer need a swapfile/” and the first page of results didn’t tell me anything technical. Rather to turn it off or to not use it in high ...
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If one never uses more RAM than they have, will upgrading RAM still speed up the PC? [duplicate]
My understanding is that once you use all your RAM, your PC will start using parts of the hard drive for temporary RAM and this is what slows your PC.
Say someone's PC has 4GB of RAM, but they never ...
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disable the pagefile individually to each program
is there a way or program that allows me to disable the pagefile only to a program?
I don't want to disable it globally and I don't want to restart the computer every time I disable it
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