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Tagged with virtual-memory memory-management
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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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How to deal with huge pagefile (committed memory) usage created by ASUS LightingService?
I have an Asus TUF Gaming laptop that I have owned for around a year. I am running Windows 11 on it.
Recently, I noticed a significant increase in memory usage, specifically from higher page file ...
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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 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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Where are process pages stored - in the swap space or under file system? Can demand paging work without space space?
The Galvin OS text says that on older systems, there used to be a method, where the entire running process (when in idle state) was moved from the main memory (when main memory ran low) to the disk ...
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How do I have non 64k aligned private memory space?
In windows memory alignment granulatity is 64K, why do I have 4k on 0x7FFEF000?
Windows 10 PRO, 11763.316
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Windows assigning 4GB of shared Video Memory to my dedicated GPU
I was wondering if there was a way to change the amount of Shared Video Memory automatically allocated to my GPU.
ASUS Prime H310M-A
Intel i5-8400 @ 2.80 GHz
R9 380X @ stock settings
8GB Corsair DDR4 ...
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How guarantee a responsive Desktop using cgroup memory limit
I would like to setup a system with limited memory (raspberry pi) in such a way that application can't cause the desktop (x11, LXDE, openbox, mouse driver, video card driver) to be unresponsive.
When ...
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Understanding Windows Process Memory Layout [closed]
I find many blogs and documents explaining process memory layout. All of them describe a memory layout of following kind:
But when I look at the VMMap tool in windows, I find pages of stack, heap etc....
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Virtual and Physical address mapping in 32 bit Windows
Correct me I am wrong.
Q1) My understanding is that in 32 bit mode we get 4GB virtual address space. Is this because 32 bit Windows can only support 4 GB physical RAM.?
Q2) Every process get its own ...
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Memory exhaustion with apparently no process exhausting it
I am suffering memory exhaustions on a Windows 10 computer nearly every three days, with no pattern to reproduce (sometimes after PC is powered on for days, sometimes just after power on, sometimes ...
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Memory management in 32-bit Windows
In a 32-bit system is the 4GB virtual address space for the whole OS or is it for individual process?
If it is for the whole OS, then does the OS fools every process that it has its own 4GB of ...
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What to do about the vmmap process in Mac OS X always hogging the CPU?
I am running Mac OS X 10.13.5 High Sierra, and I have always had my Activity Monitor up.
My computer would every now and then freeze for a few seconds completely and then act normal again. When this ...
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Why turning off Virtual Memory doesn't improve my computer's performance?
I'm studying computer architecture, more specifically, virtual memory. One thing that I can't seem to uderstand is why turning off Virtual Memory doesn't improve my computer's performance?
I know ...
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I/O and Memory in Windows System Information
How to interpreter I/O and Memory in windows System information Msinfo32?
Do I/O addresses represent memory location that mapped I/O device register
and how about addresses in memory?
If there are ...
