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Do popular cloud providers overcommit the guest VM ram?
For example, I read that while VirtualBox never overcommits memory, KVM has options to allow memory overcommit.
So I wonder if popular cloud providers (GCE, AWS, Azure ...) ever overcommit the VM ...
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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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How to stop a Linux process for later execution swapping-out its memory
I want to stop a long running process so it does not consume any CPU or physical memory resources, with the intention of resuming the same process in the future.
I know the CPU part is achievable ...
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how does a process know it's pages have been swapped out?
Let's assume I have several processes running, a1 and a2. a2 takes so much space that physical pages belonging to a1 start to get swapped out. a1's page table has to be modified to reflect this. how a ...
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Is it possible to manually send programs to virtual memory in windows?
If you have many open programs and your machine is going too high on memory/cpu utilization you might want to close a program without loosing its state (sending it to virtual memory) and then resume ...
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How do I know how much swap is used on Windows 7?
Apparently, as per Commit charge is 100% full but physical memory is just 60% when using no page file and http://brandonlive.com/2010/02/21/measuring-memory-usage-in-windows-7/, the Commit numbers in ...
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Does it matter about the amount of the swap area in Linux system
Does it matter if the amount of a swap area in Linux was set too small (say 1Gb), and the main RAM is 128Gb?
Should we always set the amount of swap area to be twice the amount of RAM?
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What does it mean to have a swap partition mounted at /dev/null?
I ran swapon -s on a VPS that I’m using and discovered that there’s a swap partition pointing at /dev/null.
# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
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Win8.1 Bad Virtual Memory Managment?
For the last couple weeks I'm facing a serious problem with my Win 8.1 32bit (64x CPU) 4G RAM, having "System Managed size" setting for virtual memory (then win allocates 1.8G), minimizing even light ...
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How can I use a flash drive to increase my virtual memory?
My computer has 8gb of physical memory. I'm running some memory intensive processes that quickly eat up that 8gb. When the physical memory runs out, it starts using the virtual memory and I see ...
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How to increase swap memory in Windows? [duplicate]
I bought a new system with 4 GB of RAM. I don't know how do I check how much swap memory I have allocated. I know that we can increase RAM physically. I want to increase swap memory on windows. How ...
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What is the exact difference between the parameters (pgpgin, pswpin) and (pswpout, pgpgout) in /proc/vmstat?
Please note that this question is specific to linux only. And by swap space, I mean the dedicated swap partition.
I did google a bit on this, and found these definitions:
Paging refers to writing ...
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I want to increase the swappiness in my windows 7
as I have 60% RAM usage every time. I have already increased Virtual Memory (Increased Swap Size) but want to increase swappiness too. see my RAM usage:
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Confused about Windows 7 64-bit page file with SSD
I followed this advice to get Windows to use more RAM and less paging. To be honest, I'm a total noob to all this page file stuff. I've always just assumed that Windows was using the 8 GB of ram I ...
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Linux Virtual Memory/Swap isn't being used
I think my virtual memory is not configured correctly on my MintLinux machine. I opened up a new IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, and my whole system appeared to freeze. I tried to TTL to the console but that did ...
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