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What exactly triggers Windows to move its pagefile.sys to another disk or partition?
I run a number of test systems with Windows 10 Professional installed. All of these systems have a SSD drive with three partitions (C:, D:, and E:) installed. All systems are setup exactly the same ...
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Performance Counter for Memory Mapped Files
When using memory mapped files I'm getting in situations where Windows stalls since new memory is allocated and processed faster than it can be written to disk using memory mappedfiles.
The only ...
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Deleting swapfile.sys when another partition is provisioned for paging in Windows 11
A Windows 11 system is configured with two physical storage devices. The first has a typical layout, of boot, reserved, and data partitions, whereas the second is partitioned exclusively for a page ...
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Can small amount of tablet's RAM be compensated by virtual memory
If you have a 1 GB ram Windows 7/8/10 tablet then I assume there will be poor performance. Could it be improved by increasing the page file (virtual memory) size? Perhaps it's not so important to get ...
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Why did Windows put my pagefile on a different drive, and can I move it back?
I have a Windows 2012 server with a boot drive mounted as drive letter C, and a very large disk array (120 TB) attached and mounted as a single volume as drive letter F.
I happened to notice that ...
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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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Moving the page file to a different folder
My Windows 8.1 To Go machine is always popping up saying it's low on memory, so I finally decided to make a page file. The problem is, I was going to make it on my largest hard drive on the computer. ...
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How to force Windows 10 to use pagefile on usb-connected SSD?
I have a constantly connected USB SSD disk. I'm never going to disconnect it at runtime. It operates in a "better performance mode", not "quick removal". I can configure pagefile ...
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Can you use virtual memory like you can physical RAM if you have an NVMe drive? Are there limitations to this?
I have a program that needs LOTS of RAM to for a computation project I need to run for a weekend. Obviously I don't have supercomputer ram and my limits as a consumer is 32GB.
Windows has memory ...
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Set the page/swap file on an external hard disk to save space on the main system disk
My 32-bit Windows 10 machine has a reasonable processor, but limited hardware resources (only 4GB RAM and 28GB local HDD). Windows itself takes up nearly half the disk so I'm using an external 1TB USB ...
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Windows reports "Out of Memory" despite huge pagefile
How to force Windows to use the swap file to the fullest?
I use Windows 7 64-bit and I have 16 GB of RAM + 8 GB (static) pagefile.
When I open many Chrome tabs, and the physical memory is almost ...
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How to store data in pagefile?
Memory-mapping, e.g. via Python's numpy.memmap, works, albeit temporarily; once pagefile capacity is exceeded, the arrays are silently unmapped from pagefile. Re-mapping each time is undesired - need ...
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Any risks to greatly increasing pagefile size?
I require 64GB to fit an entire dataset in memory for deep learning, but have only 12GB RAM. Virtual memory being the next-best alternative, I learned it can be effectively increased via increasing ...
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Windows 10 virtual memory/pagefile discrepancies
My Windows 10 system is using far too much virtual memory
How do I stop this?
Using HWiNFO64 you can see I currently have about 75 GB of virtual memory on my system and am using a massive 31 GB. The ...
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Is there way to detect Page file size change source within Windows 7?
In the office, I do my work on a Windows 7 machine that has 16GB on RAM. However, after each restart it automatically sets the pagefile to 3072MB. I have created a delayed schedule task (which calls a ...
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