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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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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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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How to increase memory for a Java application in Windows 10?
I suppose I should to increase a Java heap size for the application. Does Java heap size have a common settings for all Windows 10 applications? Or should I set it for the application I need. How? ...
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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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Windows 10 system managed virtual memory size is very low. Lower than expected. Can I trust it?
On Windows 10 Home laptop with 8 GB of RAM, the system managed 'Recommended' paging file size is 1905 MB.
Everything I've read says the setting should be from 1.5 to 4 times the size of your RAM. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Top command cache vs free memory
When I am running top command (on embedded system with 64 MB RAM) I am getting below description on total memory usage:
"Mem: 43468K used, 968K free, 0K shrd, 1280K buff, 21896K cached"
It looks ...
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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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Virtual Memory Organization
I have a question pertaining to virtual memory. In the description we always tend to show Heap growing from Low Address to High Address, and Stack in the other direction e.g.
Question: Is this just ...
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