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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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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 increase virtual memory in Windows 10
Premiere Pro is complaining when I import more than 120gb of video. I have 240gb ssd, 10gb RAM.
When I increase virtual memory to 15GB, max 30GB, I still getting the low memory import error once the ...
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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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Can a same disk be temp for windows and linux?
Is it possible to make a SSD be temp and virtual memory for both windows and linux, without wasting half of the size for the other OS, and be SSD-friendly?
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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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Virtual Memory and SSDs [duplicate]
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Virtual Memory and SSD
On a Windows 7 system, isn't it more beneficial to leave the page file ON the SSD versus moving it over to a HDD? I've heard some say if you move it off ...
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Virtual Memory and SSD
While studying for the A+ Exam I was reading about SSD's and I thought to myself that if you had a mobo with a low RAM limit you could use a dedicated SSD purely for Virtual RAM. I looked up some ...
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