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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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.
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MacBook is laggy when switching apps
On my MacBook I experience lags when switching apps or when the debugger hits an exception/breakpoint and brings my IDE to the top.
The CPU usage is quite low, as you can see in the following image. ...
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Where are process pages stored - in the swap space or under file system? Can demand paging work without space space?
The Galvin OS text says that on older systems, there used to be a method, where the entire running process (when in idle state) was moved from the main memory (when main memory ran low) to the disk ...
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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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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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Understanding virtual machine memory allocation and process virtual memory - Hyper-V
I am trying to understand how the memory demands of my application are imposed on a virtual machine and/or the host computer. The context of this question is Windows 10 guest O/S on (probably) Windows ...
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why physical memory NOT contiguous?
Background: I was running a kernel module that give me some info about kernel virtual address space which told me that Linux lowmem region is approximately 7.24 GB. lowmem region is supposed to be a 1:...
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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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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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Esxi not reading all installed memory
So i have esxi with installed memory 12 GB
The vmware reads 8gb only
I have raid hardesk
And SSD THICK PROVISIONS data store
So why the esxi reads only 8GB?
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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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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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Using compressed memory under Miniconda container
I am using continuumio/miniconda3:latest as the base image for my container. It looks to be debian based. I run it under Amazon Linux 2. I would like to optimally use compressed memory, perhaps zram, ...
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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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