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How to prevent windows from using all RAM when running the system for an extended period of time?
I own two up to date computers with windows 10, with fairly different hardware, on both of them, windows fills the ram (99-100%) over time, usually after a month of run time.
The first uses a hard ...
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How much time am I spending in swap?
I think I'm getting slowness due to running out of memory and hitting swap. I've watched the hardfaults/sec in Resource Monitor and it's often over 1000. This is an issue generally during ...
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Pagefile on Windows 10 limited to 64 GB?
I have a few tasks where I can't avoid using tons of memory. Since I have limited physical memory, Windows starts using the SWAP/Pagefile. Though it seems that Windows is limiting the pagefile size to ...
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Is there any way to "Reset" or "Clear" windows paging file size which is managed by system?
Is there any way to "Reset" or "Clear" windows paging file size which is managed by system? In my case I have 16 gigs of ram installed and all paging file settings are set to auto. At some point in ...
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What happens when you mlock(2) memory that is already swapped?
Simple question, but I couldn't find an answer.
If there's a page in memory that has already been swapped out to disk by the kernel, and then its owner process calls mlock(2) or VirtualLock on that ...
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How to check Paging Memory on swap for Windows, via command line?
On Windows operating systems, we use the Resource Monitor to check the memory paging for my server.
I need to check it via command line so I can put in my standard script to check and create text ...
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Is it possible to manually send programs to virtual memory in windows?
If you have many open programs and your machine is going too high on memory/cpu utilization you might want to close a program without loosing its state (sending it to virtual memory) and then resume ...
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How to increase swap memory in Windows? [duplicate]
I bought a new system with 4 GB of RAM. I don't know how do I check how much swap memory I have allocated. I know that we can increase RAM physically. I want to increase swap memory on windows. How ...
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Increase Performance by utilizing RAM instead of swap (Windows 8) [duplicate]
My computer is pretty fast, but I feel it may be getting slowed down by putting things in swap which would do better in RAM. I have 16 GB of ram, and even in conditions where only around 3 GB is used, ...
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How to "swap in" again memory from page file to physical memory in Windows at once (like linux swap-off)
Is there a way to swap back in (to put back all the memory data that was put into the page file (or swap, whatever you prefer)) memory on a windows PC?
On linux, one can easily do this with the ...
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Is that true that Windows can eventually address executable files as if they were parts of virtual memory?
I've once read somewhere that Windows can treat programs' executables and DLL files as parts of swap file rather than duplicating their content into pagefile.sys when swapping them out of physical ...
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