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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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Tell Hypervisor to Swap Allocated RAM to Paging Files
Due to many running VMs in Windows 10 I am hitting my physical memory limit. Although it will be a performance hit, I want windows to allow paging of the VMs allocated memory. By default it does not ...
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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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Why does Win10 not auomaticly grow the page file
The page file size on my Windows 10 64bit with 16GB phyiscal RAM is managed by Windows automaticly. The system tells me that the size is currently 2,38 GB. So the virtual RAM is 18,1 GB.
When I "...
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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 can I stop `vmmem` process?
I installed docker on windows home which uses WSL2 as a backend. However, ever since I installed a new container on it yesterday my computer fan has been turning on every 5 seconds. I am not sure ...
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How do I remove/disabled MsMpEng.exe? [duplicate]
My system regularly crashes with the following error in the error log
Windows successfully diagnosed a low virtual memory condition. The following programs consumed the most virtual memory: MsMpEng....
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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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Page file size in Windows 10
As I have gone through some articles, the virtual memory page file size should be 1.5 multiplied by the RAM size. I am currently using 8GB physical RAM in my laptop. So accordingly the page file ...
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Adding RAM (32GB to 128GB) Windows uses much more memory: why/how/where?
I recently updated a 9900k system with 32GB to 128GB of RAM. After getting rid of useless drivers, at startup, Windows 10 enterprise x64 uses 2.6GB of RAM. After upgrading to 128GB, the memory used is ...
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Does increasing ram reduce memory usage percentage in windows 10?
I have i5-9300h processor and 8bg of ram on my laptop and recently have noticed that Chrome and apparently Desktop Windows Manager accounts for maximum memory usage in my task manager. So upgrading my ...
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Shared GPU Memory. Can I turn off this feature?
I am running:
Windows 10
Nvidia GTX1070-8GB
24GB System RAM
i7
I am running into an issue in my video editor, complaining about depleting the GPU memory.
When inspecting my resources, I noted that ...
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.NET application seems not to be executing some operations when left to sit idle - laggy after sitting idle
I have a .NET application which basically does the following:
Is connected to a bunch of serial devices (~32) via COM ports, and is processing data coming from those devices
When a message is ...
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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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