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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What if the computer programs would know about the existence of each other? [closed]
In modern computers, virtual memory provides a layer of abstraction, thanks to which the program thinks that's it works with the processor itself. I know it's impossible under the conditions of modern ...
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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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Why should I install my programs into my SSD? Shouldn't disk accesses be infrequent after loading to memory?
I'm wondering why people always say to put the Operating System and the program installations on the SSD (as opposed to a larger magnetic disk HDD).
As I understand, in the memory hierarchy, programs ...
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Can you use virtual memory like you can physical RAM if you have an NVMe drive? Are there limitations to this?
I have a program that needs LOTS of RAM to for a computation project I need to run for a weekend. Obviously I don't have supercomputer ram and my limits as a consumer is 32GB.
Windows has memory ...
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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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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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.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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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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Does macOS compact RAM to save power?
We all know that a modern OS will save power by throttling the CPU (or even putting it to sleep) when it isn't needed. But what about the RAM? After all, DRAM can't be powered-down without losing its ...
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Commited memory keeps going up
So I have been having this problem for over a year, if anyone can help me solve this I would be forever grateful. Seriously.
Upon using my laptop (8Gb of physical memory) for a long time eventually ...
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Process Explorer Reports Processes with 2TB "virtual size" in Windows 10?
This screen snip of Process Explorer shows multiple processes with >2TB "virtual size":
This can't mean they are all using 2TB of virtual memory, so I'm wondering just what this means.
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What is the history behind `ulimit -m` / RLIMIT_RSS not working?
According to man setrlimit (which is what man ulimit directs me to),
RLIMIT_RSS
Specifies the limit (in bytes) of the process's resident set (the number of virtual pages resident in RAM). ...
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