RAM (random access memory), either RAM hardware or software and operating system use of RAM.
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How much can I recover memory data from memory dump created when BSOD occurred?
Let's say in Windows 7 every Windows setting is set to default. Computer suddenly goes onto BSOD, and creates memory dump automatically. In this case, how much would one be able to read into memory ...
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Web browser with memory management [closed]
Is there any web browser with manual memory management exist?
So I can limit memory consumption, also it would be nice if can handle 'infinite' number of tabs.
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Should I buy more RAM?
Working hardly on my PC for a long time, I'm getting such workloads
and things are painfully slow.
Nevertheless, 1.5 GB is constantly available, no matter what. Moreover, Mark Russinovich is very ...
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Does the Sony VAIO VGN-AW11Z/B laptop (Intel PM45 chipset, 2 memory bays) support 16GB of RAM?
I do know that Intel suggests PM45 supports 8GB, but those are rather old specs when 8GB sticks were not available. I wonder if anyone has tried 2x 8GB sticks on the VAIO? or even 2x 16GB sticks for a ...
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Server requirements setting up Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) [closed]
I'm setting up a classroom with 10 old PCs which I will use as thin clients in a VDI.
I'll be lecturing Microsoft courses for which each student loads a Windows 7 VM with Visual Studio and IIS etc.
...
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Memory speed: single and dual channel
I measured memory throughput of my computer with MemTest86+, and one result surprised me.
I use DDR3-8500 (533 Mhz) modules. I have one 4 GiB and two 2 GiB. The timings seem to be 7-7-7-20 fixed by ...
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How does the microprocessor make the bits move from memory to inside of it? [closed]
I was just wondering, since it only fetches bytes that are read as circuit instructions to process data and the like, but how exactly does it "move", get the bits going, outside of the RAM IC to ...
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How big a performance impact on Core i7 Xeon is caused by not installing RAM in pairs?
At work I have a dual CPU workstation (HP Z600) with i7 / Xeon E5620 Gulftowns installed on a Intel 5520 based motherboard. Factory, it was installed with 2x2GB sticks enabling 4GB in dual channel ...
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Opera torrent download uses whole memory - no guilty process found
I'm downloading torrent with StackExchange data dump. There was about 40% done, today when I clicked resume, the computer hanged and was practically unusable for about 30 minutes.
After a few ...
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svchost.exe is consuming 1.6GB of memory
I noticed that svhost.exe was consuming 1.6GB of memory. Here are the services that were associated with this instance:
This PC is currently running a VM and also streams content in the house using ...
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How is memory mapped to certain hardware? How is MMIO accomplished exactly?
Realize that I am NOT asking about how MMIO (memory mapped input/output) is set up, but asking how it is mapped, I.e, what maps it exactly? Not what is mapped to what, I can Google a memory map for ...
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Install too much RAM - and then? [closed]
I saw some already asked if its possible to install more than max. specified RAM capacity.
I want to go a bit further.
I have a laptop (Vaio VPCF11C5e) with currently 2x4GB 1066Mhz installed. ...
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Probable issues with upgrading RAM to 8GB for Asus S400CA-CA028H Ultrabook [closed]
Will my laptop work without issues if I add Corsair Vengeance DDR3 4GB (1 x 4 GB) Laptop RAM (CMSX4GX3M1A1600C9) to it?
I have a Asus S400CA-CA028H Ultrabook with 4GB integrated into motherboard, ...
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Windows 8 and memory consumption [closed]
My current system should have enough memory (4GB), but it's the lower average right now and if I want to run multiple applications at once - which is needed - memory is getting scarce.
In addition to ...
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Windows fails to start after RAM upgrade
I have a alienware m11x r2 and I recently bought some new RAM for it. However after installing it, when windows boots up a "Windows fails to start" page appears. I am then giving the option to repair ...
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How many memory addresses can we get with a 32-bit processor and 1gb ram?
How many memory addresses can we get with a 32-bit processor and 1gb ram and how many with a 64-bit processor?
I think that it's something like this:
1GB of ram divided by 32bits or divided by 4? to ...
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Calculate performance of RAM using timing and speed
if an 8gb DDR3 SDRAM 1600MHz has a timing of 8-8-8-24, how can I calculate if it will have a better performance than a 2x4gb DDR3 SDRAM 1866MHz with a timing of 9-10-9-28?
Also, will a 2x4gb DDR3 ...
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What RAM do I need to get?
I can't work out what RAM I need. I'm not even sure what laptop I have! All I know is:
It's a Sony VIAO, and there is a small marking "VPCF11JOE" just below the screen.
The installed memory is 6GB
...
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5answers
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Where did my memory go after having a long up-time?
I have a Windows 7 Professional computer with 12GB of RAM. On a fresh start up, the amount of RAM is more than adequate for my needs. However, a couple of weeks into up-time and it appears that the ...
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Allocating more RAM to Integrated Intel HD Graphics
I am concerned about power consumption on my Asus laptop.
I have allocated 512MB (maximum allowed) of RAM to the graphics card, and I wanted to know if the more you allocate the more power it ...
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To analyse the space taken by one pdf page? [closed]
I have OCR-filtered by Abbyy Fileexpress PDF-document which has 777 pages.
I takes about 150 Mb memory.
There are dummy colours at the sides of the pages, which I think most of the space in memory.
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What is the easiest method to check if I have DDR3?
I want to find out if my mother-in-law's computer has DDR3. She is living quite far away, and she is not completly computer illiterate, but downloading, installing and running a program might be too ...
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How to blacklist a particular bad RAM area in Windows? [duplicate]
I have found a RAM error with MemTest86+ (the version included with Ubuntu 13.04), it says:
Failing address: 002f796c48 - 759.5 MB
I have no money to buy new RAM now and the error seems to be ...
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Does the 4 GB RAM limit on 32-bit systems also affect the swap space?
It is well known that 32-bit systems can only handle 4 GB as maximum amount of RAM.
Under Linux, does this limit also apply to swap partitions? If my RAM + swap exceeds 4 GB, will it be fully used?
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Exhaustive Windows 7 troubleshooting procedure?
I have been using this laptop for almost two years now. Its an Intel 2nd Gen i3 with 4 GB of RAM with a 512 MB of ATI Radeon 5470 GPU running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 ultimate (Not too ...
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Custom built PC slowly freezes up [closed]
So this is probably one of the weirdest PC issues I have ever experienced. I built my PC in the winter of 2011, so about 1.5 years ago. Here are the stats:
ASUS P8P67 (REV 3.1) LGA 1155 Intel P67 ...
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CPU Bottlenecking GPU?
At the moment I have these specs:
BIOSTAR Group, A770E3 motherboard
CPU: Processor AMD Athlon(tm) II X3 450 Processor, 3200 Mhz, 3 Core(s), 3 Logical Processor(s)
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 12GB (3 ...
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What are some uses for GPU RAM? [closed]
I have an ATI Radeon 5450 GPU, with 2 GB DDR3 RAM.
Is there anything I can do to utilise this RAM?
Thanks!
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find out what process is using all the RAM? [duplicate]
I met the same problem
like this
Linux: find out what process is using all the RAM?
anybody can tell me why.
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How Much Memory [closed]
Goal:
Measure in quantity of the client's (client has 6 gb primary memory) usage of primary memory.
I'm using Win7 professional.
Problem:
What methodology or how do you measure the computer's ...
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Best Use of 32GB of RAM in Windows 8? [closed]
I went a little nuts and bought 32 GB of RAM for my latest computer build. Besides being able to run a ton of VMs, is there any way I can have Windows 8 utilize all of this memory? Maybe put the ...
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Why does launchd keep killing processes
I've noticed my system.log is getting flooded with messages like this:
May 5 12:56:08 macpro com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.qtkittrustedmoviesservice[8568]): Exited: Killed: 9
May 5 12:56:08 ...
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Why do my OSes only recognize 3 GiB of RAM?
Okay, I have 4 RAM slots in my computer - I'd stocked it with 2 2-GiB sticks, and 2 1-GiB sticks, but my OS only showed 3 GiB. This occurred on 32-bit Windows, 32-bit Linux, and 64-bit Linux.
The ...
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bitcoind failed on my arch linux linode server, where can I find the log telling me what happened?
I have looked in /var/log and I cannot find anything related to bitcoin.
I was running bitcoind for a number of hours the other day on my 1GB RAM/8 core linode when bitcoind stopped running ...
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Negative impacts of using high CPU And memory for a few seconds?
I built a crawler for my own personal use that queries many pages with curl_multi_exec. It uses 98% CPU and memory for 10 seconds on my laptop. I'm only crawling around a 1000 pages, but I wanted to ...
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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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Memory usage classification under Darwin (Mac OS X 10.8)
on Mac OS X using Memory Clean, I can behold this memory usage stats chart:
While the meaning of active and free seems to be clear, what do "wired" and "inactive" memory refer to?
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Does SO-DIMM DDR3 from Macbook fit into normal Motherboard
Do SO-DIMM DDR3 from a macbook pro fit and work on a "normal" motherboard like this one:
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.de.asp?Model=AD2550B-ITX
thanks!
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Summary explanation of Windows Diagnostic Report [closed]
This might be very broad and potentially impossible to answer entirely, but it's very important I'm able to understand what everything covered in a Windows Diagnostic Report is telling me.
I've ...
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BSOD Error Code 1a
For the past couple of months I receive a BSOD Error Code 1a about 1-3 times every single day. It feels like the issue happens a lot when i'm using adobe flash, but i'm sure there is probably a more ...
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Extreme Kernel Paged Pool Memory Use (Win 7 64-bit)
I'm currently running Win 7 Pro 64-bit on a file server system with 12 hard drives. The drives are connected through 2x IBM M1015 controller cards (flashed to LSI 9211-8i IT mode firmware). I'm ...
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What can I do to improve my laptop's performance? [closed]
Core i5 2.67 GHz Processor
2GB RAM
250GB Hard Drive(the C: Drive has a total of 116GB out of which 17.24GB is free)
32bit Windows 7 Professional
I have a lot of themes installed plus I also have ...
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How to view how much RAM NTFS file cache is using? Any way to see what files are cached?
In effort to figure out why there's a general system performance degradation (Windows OS desktop/application lag) in the below issue (which may be memory-related), I would like for a way to see ...
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How to know how much RAM can still be installed [duplicate]
Is there any software that can determine how much more RAM can still be installed on a computer?
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How can I fix my slow computer?
I use a Lenovo W520 laptop with 4gig of memory, 64bit Windows 7, intel i7 processor, 7200 rpm hard disc.
The computer seems to be very slow at times and when it's slow I look at my disk-hit LED and ...
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Virtual desktops for Windows with ability to suspend [closed]
I'm looking for a virtual desktop program that would allow me, aside from the regular features of programs like that, to suspend one of the desktops.
I don't know how hard that would be to pull off ...
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Python taking too much memory on server,
I have a running EC2 instance on amazon AWS. and some time server gives me the memory maximum utilization above 97%.
When i saw my server stats on newrelic That showed me the below running processes ...
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How can I find out if I have enough ram to dual boot?
How can I find out if I have enough ram to dual boot or boot from a usb? I have a windows xp sp3 laptop with 2gb of total ram and I'm interested in trying out linux (maybe ubuntu or mint), for fun. ...
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How to hide interception of kernel API calls? [closed]
I am using a piece of software called RunAsDate that allows one to run a selected executable in a specified date and time. However, after its usage and termination of processes of both RunAsDate and ...
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Where's the memory going? [closed]
I'm getting Out of Memory errors in one of my programs (I'm a programmer).
This is ridiculous, because I have 16GB RAM on a Windows 7 x64 system, and no reason why I should be running out. So I ...
