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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Should I disable swap file if I have lots of RAM or should I move it to a virtual RAM drive?
Imagine I have tons of RAM. Let's say 64GB. That's a lot for even gaming PCs. Now the default location of a pagefile in Windows is on the main OS drive, be it HDD or SSD, which are faster in general, ...
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Commit charge is 100% full but physical memory is just 60% when using no page file
I have disabled the page file in my system (hard disk is too slow, cannot buy a new one right away, cannot move page file to another partition). When I see into Resource Monitor, using memory ...
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What is the difference between virtual memory and built-in memory (RAM)?
I allocated ~24GB of my hard-drive as "virtual memory" -- what I understand to be extra space that the computer can use as RAM. My system has 8GB RAM built in, so my assumption is that I'm pumping a ...
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What is the Optimal Virtual Memory Size For 8 GB RAM | WIN 10?
I would like to ask experts that What is the optimal Virtual Memory Size For 8 GB RAM | WIN 10 and how you calculate?
I know the system says 1906 MB is recommended but is it enough or I should set ...
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Do I still need to use virtual memory?
I would have thought this was already asked but I can't seem to find it.
At what point do I no longer need virtual memory enabled? With 4GB of RAM I see that the computer rarely uses anywhere near ...
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(Virtual Memory) Windows 7 keeps saying "System memory is running low" and close programs/game crash
I noticed my PC with Windows 7 x64 very often say system memory is running low.
This happens when I open some "heavy" programs simultaneously (like Firefox with many tabs, photoediting, CAD, etc).
I ...
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What is virtual memory?
I was double checking my notes for 'Virtual Memory' and the definition in my text book is:
Process of allocating a section of secondary storage to act as part of the main memory
Where as Wikipedia ...
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Virtual Memory and SSD
While studying for the A+ Exam I was reading about SSD's and I thought to myself that if you had a mobo with a low RAM limit you could use a dedicated SSD purely for Virtual RAM. I looked up some ...
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How do I suppress "low memory" warnings in Vista Home Premium when running without paging file?
A few weeks ago I disabled all paging files on my Media Center. I figured that it only ever runs AVG, Media Center, Logmein, Chrome and sundry services to support these and never gets above 1.4-1.5&...
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How to find virtual memory size and cache size of a linux system?
Is there any command to get virtual memory size, cache size and front side bus speed of a linux system? Is swap in linux same as virtual memory?
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How is virtual memory actually increasing the memory space?
I understand that virtual memory fools the program by displaying more memory than is actually available.
But ultimately it has to map the logical address to the actually physical address. Now how is ...
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Will Microsoft Windows 10 overcommit memory?
Linux OS:es will typically allow overcommit of memory. For example a process can allocate 100GB memory, even though the machine only has 8GB physical memory and no swap.
As long as all the allocated ...
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Why won't Windows 7 record crash details when the paging file is separated from the operating systems drive, and can I do something about this?
I've got a secondary harddrive (a separate physical device, not a logical partition) specifically dedicated for the Virtual Memory paging file. The drive is 3.5x larger than my RAM, so it's plenty ...
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In winxp, I have 4GB of RAM, am using 1.77GB, but programs keep paging out to memory. Why?
All in the title. What's the point of more RAM if my programs will page out instead of using it?
To be more specific, here's an example: I open 12 tabs in a browser. I look at one of them while using ...
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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 ...
