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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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What if the computer programs would know about the existence of each other? [closed]
In modern computers, virtual memory provides a layer of abstraction, thanks to which the program thinks that's it works with the processor itself. I know it's impossible under the conditions of modern ...
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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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Does Page File size affect Gaming performance?
Does changing the Page File size affect gaming performance? If so, how big of an impact is it & what changes result in better performance?
I'm tweaking Windows to maximize gaming performance. I ...
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Windows 10 system managed virtual memory size is very low. Lower than expected. Can I trust it?
On Windows 10 Home laptop with 8 GB of RAM, the system managed 'Recommended' paging file size is 1905 MB.
Everything I've read says the setting should be from 1.5 to 4 times the size of your RAM. ...
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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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What is the Optimal Virtual Memory Size For 8 GB RAM | WIN 10?
I would like to ask experts that What is the optimal Virtual Memory Size For 8 GB RAM | WIN 10 and how you calculate?
I know the system says 1906 MB is recommended but is it enough or I should set ...
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How to detect thrashing on an SSD-equipped Windows system?
With spinning hard disks it was relatively common to hear disk thrashing when some process, Windows or otherwise, was making a bad fist of things.
Quite often this was an indicator that a process was ...
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Should I disable swap file if I have lots of RAM or should I move it to a virtual RAM drive?
Imagine I have tons of RAM. Let's say 64GB. That's a lot for even gaming PCs. Now the default location of a pagefile in Windows is on the main OS drive, be it HDD or SSD, which are faster in general, ...
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Open programs take forever to reload after another program used-up all the memory
I have the following phenomena: I have 4GB RAM, and sometimes I use a program (program A) which uses up all the available memory, say 3.9GB. If there are more open programs, then their memory is ...
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Do I need Readyboost and page file if I have lots of free RAM?
I have 12 GB RAM installed in my laptop. I have currently both page file and ready boost disabled. Most of the time my RAM usage are under 6 GB. So, I still have 6 GB RAM all the time. Considering ...
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How to know the size of page frame used by my OS?
How to know the size of page frame used by my OS ?
This could be useful for some optimizations when I code. (Allocate big buffer that fit in a page frame for example).
Page frame is determined by ...
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Why does increasing Virtual Memory not help improve game performance? [closed]
My RAM has a pathetic 2GB and most of my applications and background services take up at least 25% to 35% of it and thus causing the game to be laggy and all.
I've tried adding virtual memory, from ...
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Increase page file or buy RAM?
I've a 10+ year old XP PC which surprisingly still works however one of the 256MB RAM finally died. Now I am left with just 256MB. As expected the PC became slower however when I tried to increase the ...
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Will a swap file not slow down the system so much if a solid-state drive is used?
When RAM runs out on a computer, the swap file is used, and then the system can become quite slow. But if the notebook or desktop is using SSD nowadays, will it be less of a concern?
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