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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Can a MicroSD card help speed up my Mini PC?
Some months ago I bought a Mini PC:
Intel Celeron J4125
8 GB of DDR4 RAM
256 GB M.2 SSD
Windows 11, fully patched
I use this PC for programming in Visual Studio and SQL Server.
The PC is very slow ...
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Do popular cloud providers overcommit the guest VM ram?
For example, I read that while VirtualBox never overcommits memory, KVM has options to allow memory overcommit.
So I wonder if popular cloud providers (GCE, AWS, Azure ...) ever overcommit the VM ...
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Does Virtual Memory expand and contract or does it only expand in Windows 11
What makes the virtual memory expand and what makes virtual memory contract, if possible?
Trying to understand the uses of virtual memory and what makes it expand and contract in Windows 11
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Could interrupting a SQL query that was taking too long lead to a decrease in disk space?
For a personal data analysis project, I was trying to find the most frequent 3 products that were being sold together by doing a self join (twice).
As the query was taking over 15 mins and the laptop ...
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How to deal with huge pagefile (committed memory) usage created by ASUS LightingService?
I have an Asus TUF Gaming laptop that I have owned for around a year. I am running Windows 11 on it.
Recently, I noticed a significant increase in memory usage, specifically from higher page file ...
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Win 11: Pagefile disabled but virtual memory still exists
On Windows 11 system, I disabled pagefile. Subsequently, 'Performance Options' shows 'Total paging file size for all drives: 0MB'. However, the virtual memory is still not set to zero and affects the ...
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Virtual Memory not working on Windows11 VHDX with Intune
I'm using bootable VHDx with Windows11. My company ask me to register my laptop with Enterprise Portal (Intune); i have to encrypt my drive using Bitlocker for that. When i start from a brand new VHDX,...
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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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What are "Global Pages" for? (Intel x86 processors)
In Intel Software Developer's Manual (Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, June 2023 edit version) Volume 3A Section 4.10.2.4, while explaining TLBs, the following is said ...
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Can virtual memory be used to allocate more memory for WSL2?
I'm running WSL2 on a laptop with 16BG RAM. Working on a project in Node which in local development when run takes as much as 7GB of memory which is almost all of the allowed 50% and this causes ...
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Performance Counter for Memory Mapped Files
When using memory mapped files I'm getting in situations where Windows stalls since new memory is allocated and processed faster than it can be written to disk using memory mappedfiles.
The only ...
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Photoshop CS6 will not open and keeps saying there is not enough RAM when it has worked before with less free memory
So this question goes hand-in-hand with another one of my posts, Urgent: Cannot run any program as administrator, gives file system error (-1073740791) on Windows 10, in that I believe they are ...
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Chrome session stops loading anything after copying large image to clipboard
So I was copying a 15000x8000 image from Wikipedia to my clipboard in Windows 10, which resulted in the browser freezing for a bit. It unfroze and I thought everything was fine after that but noticed ...
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Deleting swapfile.sys when another partition is provisioned for paging in Windows 11
A Windows 11 system is configured with two physical storage devices. The first has a typical layout, of boot, reserved, and data partitions, whereas the second is partitioned exclusively for a page ...
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Memory optimization of redis-server in an embedded Linux distribution
I'm trying to optimize a redis-server version 6.0.5 installed in an embedded Linux distribution with 2 GByte of RAM.
At the moment there aren't particular failure of the redis-server.
The output of ...
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