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Why is Windows apparently using HDD instead of SSD as virtual memory?
I'm running a python notebook which is reading big files from disk (stored in HDD) and putting their content into memory.
My computer seems to be using virtual memory, because it is running out of RAM,...
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Why should I install my programs into my SSD? Shouldn't disk accesses be infrequent after loading to memory?
I'm wondering why people always say to put the Operating System and the program installations on the SSD (as opposed to a larger magnetic disk HDD).
As I understand, in the memory hierarchy, programs ...
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How to resolve APFS overallocation error from volume "VM" without reformatting disk
I ran Disk Utility's First Aid on my drive's APFS container. One of the volumes, called "VM", gives the following warning:
warning: Overallocation Detected on Main device: (26707978+1) bitmap address ...
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System that can read hard-drive and exclusively write into RAM?
I hope to be at the right place. I could not find any suggestions on the "web" about my question. How could an O.S, let us say a distribution of linux, can be loaded from the hard-drive and execute ...
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Why doesn't an SSD improve the speed of running applications compared to a HDD?
In articles/forums about PC gaming I always see people saying how Solid State Drives only make games load faster at startup (of the application) than they would with a Hard Disk Drive, and that an SSD ...
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Disable win7 harddisk ram for a specific software
Sometimes when you ask matlab to create a very large array, it exceed actual ram and tries to go into harddisk, which slows down the computer so much that it becomes impossible to close matlab, only ...
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What is the difference between virtual memory and built-in memory (RAM)?
I allocated ~24GB of my hard-drive as "virtual memory" -- what I understand to be extra space that the computer can use as RAM. My system has 8GB RAM built in, so my assumption is that I'm pumping a ...
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Why aren't all the disks contents in virtual memory?
For simplification let's only talk about hard disks and RAM. In a nut shell, virtual memory is when "memory addresses used by a program.. [are mapped] into physical addresses in computer memory". By ...
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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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ImDisk: Create physical memory drive (not virtual memory drive) from command-line
I'm using ImDisk to create a virtual drive in Windows 7. I use it as a temporary drive for documents, and it will be created every time the computer/windows restarts. This is working okay; however, I ...
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How to increase Hard-Disk LifeSpan?
1) What factors affect the life of a hard disk?
2) Does frequent writing on the disk reduce its life?
3) What is the average life span of a hard disk under normal condition?
4) Does less writing ...
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Optimizing Windows XP to use less HD access
I have a corporate laptop with a great processor and 4 gigs of RAM, however the HD is ancient, we're talking 4200RPM here, roundabouts.
Programs run great, but load horribly, horribly slow.
Any ...
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