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Tagged with virtual-memory memory
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Can a MicroSD card help speed up my Mini PC?
Some months ago I bought a Mini PC:
Intel Celeron J4125
8 GB of DDR4 RAM
256 GB M.2 SSD
Windows 11, fully patched
I use this PC for programming in Visual Studio and SQL Server.
The PC is very slow ...
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Does Virtual Memory expand and contract or does it only expand in Windows 11
What makes the virtual memory expand and what makes virtual memory contract, if possible?
Trying to understand the uses of virtual memory and what makes it expand and contract in Windows 11
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Could interrupting a SQL query that was taking too long lead to a decrease in disk space?
For a personal data analysis project, I was trying to find the most frequent 3 products that were being sold together by doing a self join (twice).
As the query was taking over 15 mins and the laptop ...
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Win 11: Pagefile disabled but virtual memory still exists
On Windows 11 system, I disabled pagefile. Subsequently, 'Performance Options' shows 'Total paging file size for all drives: 0MB'. However, the virtual memory is still not set to zero and affects the ...
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Can virtual memory be used to allocate more memory for WSL2?
I'm running WSL2 on a laptop with 16BG RAM. Working on a project in Node which in local development when run takes as much as 7GB of memory which is almost all of the allowed 50% and this causes ...
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Photoshop CS6 will not open and keeps saying there is not enough RAM when it has worked before with less free memory
So this question goes hand-in-hand with another one of my posts, Urgent: Cannot run any program as administrator, gives file system error (-1073740791) on Windows 10, in that I believe they are ...
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Chrome session stops loading anything after copying large image to clipboard
So I was copying a 15000x8000 image from Wikipedia to my clipboard in Windows 10, which resulted in the browser freezing for a bit. It unfroze and I thought everything was fine after that but noticed ...
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How virtual memory and page file is related?
We know that CPU produces logical addresses also known as virtual addresses while a program is running. Then, those virtual addresses are get translated into physical addresses by Memory Management ...
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Pagefile keeps growing, but never fully utilised
My laptop runs Windows 10 Pro and has a 512GB SSD (~45GB free) and 16GB RAM.
My page file is set to 'automatically managed'.
Recently I've found that my pagefile keeps growing to the point where it ...
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Virtual Memory Organization
I have a question pertaining to virtual memory. In the description we always tend to show Heap growing from Low Address to High Address, and Stack in the other direction e.g.
Question: Is this just ...
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Cannot browse internet with 48Gb of Ram
I have 48Gb of Highspeed Ram and yet I cannot download from Steam or a site like MyAirBridge without my computer slowing to an absolute crawl. Even moving the mouse around the screen I have stuttering ...
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MacBook is laggy when switching apps
On my MacBook I experience lags when switching apps or when the debugger hits an exception/breakpoint and brings my IDE to the top.
The CPU usage is quite low, as you can see in the following image. ...
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Windows paging file size with 100GB RAM
My system has more than 100GB RAM. But when I have too many applications open or Tabs open, I feel the system is slowing down even though the RAM utilization is around 10-15 GB. My paging file size ...
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why physical memory NOT contiguous?
Background: I was running a kernel module that give me some info about kernel virtual address space which told me that Linux lowmem region is approximately 7.24 GB. lowmem region is supposed to be a 1:...
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Page file size in Windows 10
As I have gone through some articles, the virtual memory page file size should be 1.5 multiplied by the RAM size. I am currently using 8GB physical RAM in my laptop. So accordingly the page file ...
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