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What happens when you hibernate with more memory than your SSD? [duplicate]
Lets say if you have 16 Gigabytes of RAM and hibernate when you have an 8 Gigabyte SSD. Since hibernation dumps the ram contents to the SSD, what would happen?
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Pagefile keeps growing, but never fully utilised
My laptop runs Windows 10 Pro and has a 512GB SSD (~45GB free) and 16GB RAM.
My page file is set to 'automatically managed'.
Recently I've found that my pagefile keeps growing to the point where it ...
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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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Diagnosing high CPU usage and strange issues
Totally stumped with an issue that seems to persist across machines.
Symptoms are
High CPU usage (100% or close to)
Device manager hangs when opening - it may open after 5-10 minutes
HP Audio ...
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Does using SSD as RAM burn out SSD? (2019)
I seek to use my 500GB NVMe SSD as pseudo-RAM for deep learning by increasing pagefile size. My RAM's 28GB, I seek 64GB+. From the limited info I could find on DDR4, this SSD appears to have 10% its ...
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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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Windows 7 and 10. Low on memory error
I have a laptop of about 8 years old. Recently I have changed its hard drive for a new SSD. After that, I installed Windows 7 because there is a notion that it would be faster if you have Win 7 ...
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Is my BSOD related to SSD or memory?
So I've been having a TON of BSOD's lately, and finally have been able to get dump files to save when my PC crashes. Previously, the system restarted too fast for me to read the stop code, and would ...
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High disk usage windows 8.1
i already read a lot of about 100% disk usage(50% because i have second disk) on windows machines but nothing help me. I figured out that i need to stop svchost.exe and ntdll.dll in it. Hovewer when i ...
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minimize windows swap file usage
I know completely disabling the swapfile is not a good idea, so i'd like just to minimize its usage, so that the memory pages will be swapped only when the physical memory is completely full.
I know ...
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Why do file transfers between drives use RAM
I've noticed that whenever I copy or move large files from my SSD, which I use as the system drive, to my HDD or to an external hard or flash drive, the speed graph shown by Windows always looks the ...
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Windows 7 Professional not recognising all installed RAM
My current set up is below
I bought this computer build from a 3rd party, they self built it. I reinstalled windows.
At the time I did not know about Home edition not recognizing all 24 GB ram. So ...
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Laptop started to crash on low memory conditions
I have a Lenovo T420s that has recently been freezing and then crashing with a blue screen (Windows 7).
It has 8GB RAM and a SSD hard disk. I frequently max out memory so hitting the pagefile a lot.
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Which piece of hardware in my desktop is failing?
Almost 2 years ago I built a custom desktop. This week it seems to be becoming inoperable. It's a dual boot system capable of booting to Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. When I sat down at it the other ...
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64GB SSD has a 12GB Pagefile
I have a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and it came with a 64GB SSD as the main harddrive (note: Surface only has this drive, like a tablet). I am trying to free up some more space on my harddrive and ...
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