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Tagged with virtual-memory windows
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Could interrupting a SQL query that was taking too long lead to a decrease in disk space?
For a personal data analysis project, I was trying to find the most frequent 3 products that were being sold together by doing a self join (twice).
As the query was taking over 15 mins and the laptop ...
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Win 11: Pagefile disabled but virtual memory still exists
On Windows 11 system, I disabled pagefile. Subsequently, 'Performance Options' shows 'Total paging file size for all drives: 0MB'. However, the virtual memory is still not set to zero and affects the ...
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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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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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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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Windows apps crashes randomly (diagnosis)
Recently I am experiencing random crashes on windows and seemingly not related to specific apps and without a blue-screen, some give strange errors and seem like OS-related issues. sometimes I see ...
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Cannot browse internet with 48Gb of Ram
I have 48Gb of Highspeed Ram and yet I cannot download from Steam or a site like MyAirBridge without my computer slowing to an absolute crawl. Even moving the mouse around the screen I have stuttering ...
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Windows paging file size with 100GB RAM
My system has more than 100GB RAM. But when I have too many applications open or Tabs open, I feel the system is slowing down even though the RAM utilization is around 10-15 GB. My paging file size ...
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Sysinternal's VMMap is unable to find injected memory
I'm writing a Python script that uses the Windows API to learn process injection.
The injection is successful. I can verify that the shellcode is running, and Process Explorer shows the connection:
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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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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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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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34 GB of commited memory but no app actually commited that much
Sometimes I encounter Out of memory errors and Windows Event Viewer shows this (translated):
Resource-Exhaustion-Detector: A lack of virtual memory in the system was successfully detected. The ...
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Why do I seem to run out of memory when at 80% memory usage instead of 100%
Both on windows and Linux machines it seems as if memory usage tops out around 80% according to resource monitors. Once memory gets around 80% disk IO starts to shoot up and I can hear the computers ...
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