RAM (random access memory), either RAM hardware or software and operating system use of RAM.
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Why does the memory usage in “top” not add up?
I have been using top command to monitor Linux memory usage. I understand that the "used" field in "Mem" reflects the total amount of RAM being used, including that by processes, file buffers and ...
5
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1answer
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Can I replace a SODIMM SDRAM with SODIMM DRAM in my laptop
Can I replace a SODIMM SDRAM with SODIMM DRAM in my Acer aspire 5742g?
I want to update my memory, but all this types are confusing me.
I looked at my computers memory and it says it has a SODIMM ...
0
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1answer
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Error 80070008 while trying to install Windows 7 SP1?
I just now discovered that, for the past month, Windows 7 has been unable to install SP1 due to error 80070008 which indicates my PC with 4 GB RAM has run out of memory. I've used the Windows Update ...
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1answer
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Can a 'good' scratch cause RAM to become useless?
Can a 'good' scratch cause RAM to become useless? I know it depends on where, so here's a picture:
(NOTE: The picture is used only for the sake of clarity, and is in no way identical to mine; for ...
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1answer
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I have a Shuttle SH61R4 with 2 / 4 GB RAM Modeules (8 GBs total). How can I upgrade it to 16GBs?
I have a Shuttle SH61R4 with 2 / 4 GB RAM modules in it. I use it a server to run a couple of virtual machines and so I would like to upgrade the RAM to 16 GBs. According to the following spec ...
0
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1answer
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How can I reclaim “modified” memory for my system? Any way to flush it to disk?
My hard drive has been aging. Windows hasn't been treating it well. My system has a "measly" 4 GB of RAM and Windows is all too happy to thrash all of the memory to swap and back. This means that ...
0
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2answers
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What's the normal memory usage for firefox? [closed]
I have a freshly installed Firefox (V 21.0) on my windows7 (32 bit) machine, with the hope that it uses less memory than Chrome. I have one plugin installed (adblock plus), now I have 8 tabs open, no ...
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My computer BIOS is showing 256MB as the total memory in Main tab. Is it ohk? [closed]
Somedays back it happened that my desktop started to freeze while working.
Now it just doesnt start and keeps rebooting. I created a bootable USB for windows xp and tried to install fresh windows Xp ...
1
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1answer
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PCI Express - Memory Addressing vs Physical Memory in Memory Read/Write Transactions
I'm trying to find the link between Memory BARs (Base Address Registers) and Physical Memory in a PCI Express Transactions.
In my last question I started to understand what happens when a CPU ...
0
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0answers
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Getting Page Faults and Cache Hits / Misses on Windows (via Java)
I am looking for a counter for Page Faults (major and minor) and Cache Hits and Misses (for every running process) on the windows (8/7/server/legacy) platform. In Linux, there's /proc/vmstat where i ...
1
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Macbook stuck on the loading screen
My Macbook stuck on the grey screen with the apple logo and the spinning wheel. I changed RAM memory (after crash) recently, but it worked fine for some time.
I've already tried and it didn't help:
...
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1answer
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If I'm not worried about boot-up time, what gets better performance: choosing SSD instead of SATA or adding 8 GB RAM? [closed]
OK, buying a new Desktop PC for software development.
Assumptions
Boot up time not too important. Only need to do it once or twice a day. Not a big deal.
Lots about multitasking, running VMs, etc.
...
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7answers
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Why is my computer really slow despite of having a considerable amount of free memory?
I have a Lenovo g560 3-4 years old, Intel i5, with 2GB ram and with a Geforce 310M. It always had some issues during startup or when starting a new program, but recently it just went crazy.
From the ...
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1answer
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PCI Express - Clarification about BAR, Memory addressing and physical memory
I'm an absolute beginner starting to understand the PCI Express protocol and I need some clarifications about its mechanics.
I understood that a PCI Express endpoint device may have some memory BAR ...
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3answers
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Why my ASUS Z8NA-D6 only start with one DDR3 Module?
I got 3 new RAM Modules (CSX 4GB DDR3 1333MHz) if I insert one Module into my ASUS Z8NA-D6 Board the Computer starts. But if I insert a second or third one the Computer wont start. Next I run a ...
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0answers
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How much time it takes for TAILS OS to do the procedure that prevents cold-boot, once media device is removed ? [closed]
How much time it takes for TAILS OS to do the procedure that prevents cold-boot, once media device is removed ? As far as I know, that is being done by replacing the RAM contents with useless data, ...
2
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2answers
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What do Channel Interleave and Rank Interleave settings mean in BIOS?
I have motherboard with 6 memory slots, 3 green, 3 black, grouped in 3 pairs black+green. There are two setting in BIOS which are seem to me as related to this:
Channel Interleave Setting
This ...
1
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1answer
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EVGA X58 SLI motherboard doesn't boot with new memory
EVGA X58 SLI (EVGA E758-A1 3-Way SLI (x16/x16/x8) LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard) was normally working with three CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 Triple Channel Kit Desktop ...
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0answers
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Xbox music using lots of memory
I am an xbox music pass subscriber, and whenever I play music for extended periods of time using the xbox music app in windows 8 it slowly starts eating up memory. I have 8 Gb of RAM but when I am ...
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0answers
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X58 compatability questions: Xeon and RAM
I know "hardware compatibility" questions are typically closed as too localized, but hopefully there is some more general merit to these questions. If not, feel free to direct me elsewhere.
...
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0answers
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Unusual Physical Memory Usage(Win 7/ 1 GB RAM) [closed]
Recently,my laptop seems to be constantly using a high amount of physical memory. I am using a HP 540 laptop runnning Windows 7 with 1 GB RAM. My physical memory usage used to be 55 or below but now ...
2
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1answer
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How to intercept registry or memory key?
How to intercept a registry or memory key while for example I am changing the Google Chrome window size? Is there a soft/freeware I can use that would list changes I am making in the computers memory ...
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1answer
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Can't use more than 3GB of RAM [duplicate]
I'm having a problem with my system. I recently just built a computer with the following specs:
Intel Core i7 2.66 ghz 8mb Cache
Gigabite GA-EX58-UD3R X58
6GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX-285 1GB
I'm ...
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0answers
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Is this a viable RAM upgrade for my laptop? [closed]
I have an HP pavilion DV6-3140TX, i5 2.5GHz, Windows 7 64-bit (with 2 RAM slots). 4GB DDR3, 1066MHz of RAM came with the laptop and I want to upgrade to 8GB. I am looking at this RAM memory with ...
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0answers
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Can't enable swapping in mac os x 10.8.3
some time ago a disabled swap. I need to enable it now and i was not managed to do it with help of
sudo launchctl load -wF /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist & reboot
...
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1answer
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How do I know what RAM is best for my PC? [closed]
I will be purchasing RAM for a PC of mine that operates as a gaming server and I don't know what types of RAM I should get. On http://crucial.com/ I selected my PC model (Dell OptiPlex 740) and it ...
0
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1answer
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Not Booting: One short beep at first and one more after all device checks
There is the correct one short beep before POST (which is the expected behavior as per the motherboard manual). The problem is once it says it has found the HDD etc, it gives one more short beep and ...
0
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1answer
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How to troubleshoot high cpu problems related to postgres and postmaster service?
I'm using an open source(RHCE 6.2) based machine running SIEM software , when i do the top command i see
postgress
postmaster
both eating 96% of cpu usage? Is there a way to pin-point or see ...
0
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1answer
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Why is computer making noise while gaming after installing new RAM?
I looked for an answer for my query on this site but couldn't find any. So here's my problem;
I'm running a core 2 duo @ 2.6ghz with an ATI 6450-1GB DDR3 on windows 7 32bit. I had 2 GB of memory and ...
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0answers
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Interpreting memtest - 0 passes
Since I encountered many bluescreen in the last time, I finally got to run the memtest86. I've already read this topic on how to interpret a memtest result, unfortunately it hasnt brought me any ...
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0answers
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AdBlock on Chrome eats too much memory
I installed Fedora recently and I have problem with AdBlock in Chrome. Just after start with one tab adblock takes ~100mb memory and it raises when I open more tabs ofc.
Sure, I have tried AdBlock ...
0
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0answers
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swap usage on centos 6.3
I have a production system running centos 6.3 with 96 Gb RAM and swap of 2 Gb. The intention is that there is enough RAM on the box so that no processes should get swapped.
Over the last week or so ...
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1answer
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1600 memory not working on 1333 motherboard
I just bought a Kingston HyperX blu clocked at 1600 and installed it on my motherboard that can support up to 1333 ddr3 memory but it acts as if there is no memory installed.
It tries to turn on, but ...
0
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1answer
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Using old RAM sticks [duplicate]
I have been looking on what to do with several (as in 25+) sticks of RAM, all of which are generally old and small in memory size. I was hoping to find a way to use several or all on a single ...
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0answers
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Laptop with good processing power and RAM 16GB or more [closed]
I bought my Dell XPS 15 L502X laptop 2 years back. It has 8GB RAM with Intel i7 2720QM processor. I decided to upgrade it to 16 GB RAM but unfortunately I got reply from Dell guys the model doesn't ...
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1answer
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Contradictory RAM clock speeds
I have a Asus U32U Rx012D. Here is the relevant specification :
Memory : DDR3 1333/1066 MHz SDRAM, 2 x SO-DIMM socket for expansion up
to 8 GB SDRAM *1
My processor is an E450 which means DDR3 ...
2
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2answers
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Is “system specific” an important feature for laptop RAM?
I was looking on Newegg for some SO-DIMM DDR3 ram for my laptop and noticed Kingston has a large variety of very similar laptop ram chips with different model numbers, marketed as "System Specific" ...
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3answers
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Can I mix a 2GB and a 4GB stick of ram in the Dell inspiron n5010?
I have a Dell inspriron n5010 and I want to upgrade the RAM.
It currently has 3GB of RAM. It has a 2GB stick and a 1 GB stick.
I was thinking that I would replace the 1 GB stick with this stick that ...
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3answers
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SSD or RAM if you could choose one? [closed]
I've got a chance to either get an SSD for my Dell E6410 (Win7 32, 4gb RAM, 7200rpm drive) or get more ram and upgrade to 64-bit windows 7.
I do a lot of development (.NET) and a lot of work with ...
0
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0answers
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Chrome crashes again and again when i use to load 25k tweets in browser
my issue is when i scroll down, some 20k tweets in a twitter account my chrome gets crashes again and again, but i need to scroll to the end and also the twitter account has 50k tweets. please help me ...
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1answer
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Samba slows down when RAM is full with disk cache
I recently noticed that transfer speeds with samba(exclusively, even with loopback - iperf works just fine) have dropped to around 5MB/s on my gigabit network. Before it could easily reach 70MB/s and ...
0
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1answer
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Windows 7 64-bit showing 12GB (7.99GB usable)
I've just added 2GB of Memory to my 10GB (4GBx2 + 2GBX2). They're all in their correct slot, and the 2GB's speed match.
I am now noticing that windows is showing "12.0GB (7.99GB usable)". I checked ...
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Windows 7: Control USB software upon plug in [duplicate]
I have two different USB storage devices with their own encryption software.
I always have one of them (small, SanDisk) plugged in my laptop and the other one laying around (big, Kingston).
I want ...
0
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1answer
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Address and Address Space
I'm having a difficult time distinguishing address and address space in semiconductor memory such as RAM. As an example, I have a 32-bit address bus which can address 2^32 bits of memory to RAM ...
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3answers
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Win 8 64bit: How can I see memory info from the command line?
I need to see the memory use from command line:
I have Win 8 for 64bit and mem command doesn't work. Even if it would have worked I'm not sure would give the memory for the entire system.
How can I ...
2
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0answers
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What's so special about `hal.dll+12a3b`?
I have a BSOD/STOP 0x124 problem that keeps haunting me for a very very long time: It always happens at address hal.dll+12a3b.
In my searches for an explanation/solution, I found suggestions that ...
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0answers
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RAM Disk software (many of them) have slow speed with small files [closed]
We need to find a good RAM disk software for using it with MS Analysis Services Multidimensional (to put some cubes with recent data - 2-3 month, and to speed up the data retrieval).
I've tested 5 ...
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1answer
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Why have kernel mode drivers and user mode drivers for? [closed]
Just one "mode" of a driver for devices would be enough. I do not get why one needs two kinds of drivers when it's the same concept, isn't it? Can't a regular executable call a kernel driver, and ...
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0answers
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What is a memory bank? [closed]
I'm trying to get an introduction to microprocessors and emulation technology (specifically of game consoles) and when looking at the Atari 2600 documentation/specification, it says that the ROM (or ...
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0answers
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Process memory usage: what is this?
When they say process memory usage, what does this actually mean, i.e. what does this memory consist of? There are different kinds of memory, such as Shared Memory, Memory-mapped file, virtual memory ...
