Questions tagged [virtual-memory]
Virtual memory is a method where each process is given its own address space (virtual memory), and the hardware translates every VM reference to a physical memory address. Originally VM was used to provide more address space than the available physical memory. To accommodate situations when more virtual memory is in use than physical memory, a storage device such as HDD can be used to "swap out" data and later "swap (back) in" as needed.
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Is Visual Studio 2008 a 32Bit Application?
Is the Visual Studio Application 32Bit , and thus can only address max 4GB ram?
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In winxp, I have 4GB of RAM, am using 1.77GB, but programs keep paging out to memory. Why?
All in the title. What's the point of more RAM if my programs will page out instead of using it?
To be more specific, here's an example: I open 12 tabs in a browser. I look at one of them while using ...
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