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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Virtual Memory Usage reaches up to 100% Why?
One of my client is having cloud hosting. He has problem of high virtual memory usage:
See the current status
Virtual Memory Usage
20 GB / 20 GB (100%)
Physical Memory Usage
1.82 GB / 5 GB (36.47%)
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How to drop memory caches in macOS?
In GNU/Linux there's a way to drop_caches.
drop_caches is the command that would flush caches from the main memory.
I don't have such a command in macOS.
How to..?
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Cannot access System Properties (Windows 7)
In Windows 7, I cannot open
Advanced system settings (nor "systempropertiesadvanced.exe")
Computer name, domain and workgroup settings (nor "systempropertiescomputername.exe"
Performance settings (...
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How to identify PIDs which are writing to SWAP memory in Linux
Server is using swap memory when there is enough RAM is available because of which users are facing intermittent slowness and performance issues.
In the free command I can see that there is 6927mbs of ...
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Windows reports "Out of Memory" despite huge pagefile
How to force Windows to use the swap file to the fullest?
I use Windows 7 64-bit and I have 16 GB of RAM + 8 GB (static) pagefile.
When I open many Chrome tabs, and the physical memory is almost ...
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linux kernel virtual space , lowmem , highmem , RAM size
I need some help understanding the exact relations between the linux kernel virtual space , specifically LOWMEM area , and the available RAM size as seen by the kernel.
after reading this article: ...
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How to store data in pagefile?
Memory-mapping, e.g. via Python's numpy.memmap, works, albeit temporarily; once pagefile capacity is exceeded, the arrays are silently unmapped from pagefile. Re-mapping each time is undesired - need ...
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Any risks to greatly increasing pagefile size?
I require 64GB to fit an entire dataset in memory for deep learning, but have only 12GB RAM. Virtual memory being the next-best alternative, I learned it can be effectively increased via increasing ...
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How does Kernel allocate COMMITTED VIRTUAL MEMORY to a Process
It would be really helpful for me if someone can answer my question.
How does Kernel allocate COMMITTED VIRTUAL MEMORY to a process (jvm process)
what criteria is used to determine how much ...
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How does a process like KeePass protect its memory in Windows?
I am looking at KeePass and trying to figure out how it protects its memory exactly. Is it because the use of KeePassLib.Security.ProtectedBinary class for all it's memory allocations or is it ...
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How to resolve APFS overallocation error from volume "VM" without reformatting disk
I ran Disk Utility's First Aid on my drive's APFS container. One of the volumes, called "VM", gives the following warning:
warning: Overallocation Detected on Main device: (26707978+1) bitmap address ...
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How do I have non 64k aligned private memory space?
In windows memory alignment granulatity is 64K, why do I have 4k on 0x7FFEF000?
Windows 10 PRO, 11763.316
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Can a same disk be temp for windows and linux?
Is it possible to make a SSD be temp and virtual memory for both windows and linux, without wasting half of the size for the other OS, and be SSD-friendly?
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System that can read hard-drive and exclusively write into RAM?
I hope to be at the right place. I could not find any suggestions on the "web" about my question. How could an O.S, let us say a distribution of linux, can be loaded from the hard-drive and execute ...
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Windows 10 virtual memory/pagefile discrepancies
My Windows 10 system is using far too much virtual memory
How do I stop this?
Using HWiNFO64 you can see I currently have about 75 GB of virtual memory on my system and am using a massive 31 GB. The ...
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