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How to stop certain Windows games from disabling/bypassing disk read caching? A probable DRM issue
It's now the second game that I've been playing recently which for some reasons makes Windows not use disk cache. I have 64GB of RAM. The game itself eats around 7GB, 2GB are left for the OS, which ...
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How to drop memory caches in macOS?
In GNU/Linux there's a way to drop_caches.
drop_caches is the command that would flush caches from the main memory.
I don't have such a command in macOS.
How to..?
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46/48 physical virtual addresses
Some processors support physical addresses of 46 bits and virtual addresses of 48 bits. Why 46 bits, why 48 bits? Shouln't x86 support 64-bit addresses? Why are virtual addresses not the same length ...
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Virtually Indexed Physically Tagged Cache
I have been going through the four types of data cache used in virtual memory, I came across this problem and I could not solve it.
Consider a Virtual Memory system with 20-bit virtual byte address, ...
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Virtual memory (caching) on Windows 8
I have read a bit about the issue, and I understood that the OS constantly pushes memory to the disk, so later, when another application needs a lot of RAM, it allocates that memory to it and "moves" ...
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How much RAM will Windows 7 consume or reserve for cache if I install 16 GB of RAM? [closed]
I have a pc with 4 gb of ram. I am thinking of buying 16 gb of ram because it might help windows 7 cache more "stuff" and I would browse stuff faster and maybe it would allow games to cache all data ...
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tweak windows 7 virtual memory and cache / caching settings
im on windows 7 64 bit, with 4gb of memory
whenever i copy or deal with a big ammount of data, windows swaps out everything from memory to the virtual memory swapfile, to make room to data cache.
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