Questions tagged [memory]
RAM (random access memory), either RAM hardware or software and operating system use of RAM.
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What is the reasonable choice of memory for DZ77GA-70K + Intel 3770K nowadays? [closed]
What is the reasonable choice of memory for DZ77GA-70K + Intel 3770K nowadays?
this MB supports for DDR3 1066 MHz to +2400 MHz.
Is it worth to buy memory faster 1600MHz?
Should it support XMP?
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What's the max memory i7 processors can use?
There are lots of i7 motherboards that support 64GB memory, and even one that supports 128GB:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130681
But I read that i7 CPUs can't access more ...
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Enabling Intel HD Graphics can increase memory speed?
I found that enabling Intel HD Graphics in device manager can increase memory speed about 17%. I also used Prime95 to test memory speed, and same result is found. (Prime95 results are highly dependent ...
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Win7: High System process memory usage
I noticed recently on my Win7 x64 that the "System" process gradually increases its process private memory usage. Immediate after boot it starts small (<50 MB) and gradually increases over time to ...
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"Inexplicit" RAM Compatibility
I have an HP-Pavilion dm4-1150ca. The CPU is a first gen. Intel Core i5 450m.
When I looked at the specifications page of this processor, I saw that it said only DDR3 800/1066 are compatible. ...
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Auto-restart mysql when it dies
I have a rackspace server that I have been renting to run my personal projects upon. Since I am cheap, it has 256Mb of RAM and honestly can't handle alot. Every once in a while, when there is a sharp ...
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When a copy of firefox is started another copy of firefox starts as well, why?
I am running 50.0 firefox on my windows system. I noticed that when I run a copy of a firefox, it automatically starts another instance of firefox. First instance's memory usage is around 100,000kb ...
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How to load entire process memory from swap quickly (linux)?
I run a bunch of CPU-hungry processes in parallel; they normally use a few GB of memory each. From time to time they allocate large amount of memory too (say 150-250GB). Usually at most one of the ...
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Kali-Linux update - Fatal error, no space left on device
Hey guys I have a slight issue I'm trying to resolve, I had an older version kali linux on a usb stick (32gb) with persistent memory. I did apt get && apt update to update it, it processed ...
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Vmware Workstation uses all my RAM
When I run a virtual machine in VMware workstation, after a few minutes of use, it uses all my RAM (16GB). My system performance slows down to a crawl. The problem happens with Linux guest too but its ...
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What is using 20GB of memory & why doesn't it show up in task manager?
Overnight, some unknown memory leak clogged up 20GB/24GB on my system. I've closed everything yet the leak persists. Running latest Windows 10.
How can I track down what is causing it?
All software ...
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Flash memory pq1 8GB only showing You need to format when connected to my computer
When connect my PQ1 8GB Flash memory to computer or tablet a massage apear that says needs to be formatted .
I tried to solve this with this solution (but it didn't work) :
in "run"-> type Chkdsk F: ...
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System will not boot after upgrade
I have a Supermicro X8DT3-F based system with 2 Xeon processors. I have 24 GB of system RAM and I preformed a upgrade to 48GB today. The system was not seeing the new RAM so I preformed a CMOS reset. ...
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RAM is being drained (around 6-7 GB) with no process trace
Im using a Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit PC system with Intel i7 and 8 GB of RAM.
In random events like when using my PS3 or trying to watch movies the RAM usage rises to around 7 GB from only 1.5 GB ...
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How much maximum Ram I can have per slot? [closed]
How much maximum Ram I can have per slot for desktops and laptops?
Which parameters defines that?
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if the motherboard with 4 slots support 64GB of Ram, is that true that i can have maximum ...
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iMac 24 inch made loud snap sound
99% sure that my early 2009 iMac 24 inch has twice made an excruciatingly loud snapping sound.
Details:
Sound was extremely loud, like a firecracker snap.
Occurred both times in the late evening, ...
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How is the segment size related to the number of bits in the buses?
If I have the width of each register as 32 bits, the width of the data bus is 16 bits and the width of the address bus is 24 bits, what is the segment size?
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Trying to load a 6-month old FB group but get 'out of memory'
For research purposes (qualitative), I would like to load (see) all the posts of a 6-month Facebook group but after a few days of posts are loaded I get an 'out of memory' error and the web page or ...
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Is possible for a manufacturer to fake the RAM limit in the DMI table?
I was thinking about upgrading my laptop's RAM. It currently has a 4096 MB module and a 2048 MB module, which I thought I could replace by an 8 GB module:
[root@...] # dmidecode -t 17
# dmidecode 2....
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sizes of RAM, of virtual memory and of swap for 32-bit OS
If I understand correctly, a 32-bit OS (Ubuntu) can only address 4GiB memory, so RAM with size larger than 4Gib will only be used 4Gib of itself and the rest is a waste.
I am now confused about this ...
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CPU-Z says my PC3-10600 1333MHz RAM is actually PC3-10700 667MHz. Do I have 1333 or 667 MHz RAM?
CPU-Z says this:
DDR3
4096 MBytes
PC3-10700 (667 MHz)
I am supposed to have PC3-10600 1333MHz.
What am I not understanding?
Or, is my RAM only half of what the label and seller claims it to be?
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Does Windows reuse data in RAM?
I'm using Windows 7 Professional 64-bit with 10GB of RAM. I have noticed that when I launch some larger application after boot, it takes a while to load. Now when I launch that same application later, ...
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Are all peripherals directly connected to system bus?
System bus has control, address and data buses, as we can see in this picture
I think the front-side bus and memory bus is directly on the system bus, but what about the PCIExpress and PCI buses, are ...
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What are the flash sizes of the different dd-wrt builds and can I downgrade to a lighter build?
I wanted to upgrade my router so I bought a "new" DHP-1565 (16 mb flash 128 mb ram) to replace my old E1000 (4 mb flash 32 mb ram).
I flashed with the official firmware from the database which is 16 ...
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What does the "Memory Clear" functionality mean in ASUS motherboards?
In my MB's UEFI settings, there's this option called Memory Clear, under North Bridge Settings. Possible values are Enabled and Disabled.
Some models featuring this option:
ASUS CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-...
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Formula Used by Microsoft to Calculate Memory Usage % in Task Manager?
Haven't been able to find an answer for this question. Here is some background.
I am on W7 64 Pro, and I can see the breakdown in Resource Monitor, but, when I add up the totals of the columns, I ...
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Will the performance of my Laptop increase if I migrate from Ubuntu 14.04 32 bit to 16.04 64 bit?
I have i5-3230M CPU @ 2.60GHz processor and 8GB RAM
in my Thinkpad T530 laptop.
Normally I have 6-7 pinned (gmail, whatsapp, slack, keep etc) and up to 10 open tabs in Chrome, virtualbox with ...
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High non-paged pool with no stack specified
So, I followed a guide https://superuser.com/a/988819/662442 to trace a non-paged leak of 4Gb of RAM. In vain. After loading symbolds, no stack is shown for my tag. I can't find any clue as to what to ...
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VirtualBox running on OSX host; Allocating more than 4GB of memory
I'm running a Windows 10 on OSX (latest. Sierra) and found that it is extremely slow when compiling a VS project.
To the best of my knowledge, I think the problem was that I have allocated 10 GB ...
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What happens in Windows when out of memory (RAM) and paging is disabled?
Should any error message appear or would applications crash?
I've seen the following message:
...exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
This tends ...
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Installing ESXI - Fatal error 10
I'm currently installing ESXI on a brand new Server (I literally just took it out of the packaging). It errors out with the message "Fatal error: 10 (out of resources)" while loading /s.v00.
I read ...
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Task Manager Displaying 8.2/12.4 GB of RAM committed when I only have 8 installed
So, as stated in the title, Windows task manager is telling me that 8.2 (or whatever it decides that number is) out of 12.4 GB of RAM is committed when I really only have 2 sticks of 4 GBs each.
Why ...
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Windows 7 mysterious memory usage
I am using a windows 7 machine to play a game, among other things, which was running smoothly for years, up until now. It's not a big problem but sometimes I notice drops in fps from 60 to 40 for a ...
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DDR3 DRAM geometry notation
When I'm reading the document 2Gb: x4, x8, x16 DDR3 SDRAM, it states three different types of DDR3 DRAM:
MT41J512M4 – 64 Meg x 4 x 8 Banks
MT41J256M8 – 32 Meg x 8 x 8 Banks
MT41J128M16 – 16 Meg x ...
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How to unload Firefox tabs (so they'll reload when activated)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I unload a tab manually?
If Firefox is running with a couple of tabs open and it's switched into Private Mode (an empty Firefox window appears) and then switched back, ...
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Memory upgrade to 8GB on unibody MacBook
I bought the 13" unibody MacBook one month prior to it's upgrade to become the new improved 13" unibody MacBook Pro (with unopenable battery compartment, extra 3 hours of battery life, more color ...
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Where is the RAM located in ASUS VivoBook K551LN?
I bought this laptop recently, and tried to change to 2x4 GB RAM sticks that I had bought (which is in my previous laptop now). I unscrewed the case at the bottom but I couldn't find any RAM slots, so ...
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How do I quickly stop a process that is causing thrashing (due to excess memory allocation)?
We've all experienced it--some program is asked to do something that requires a huge amount of memory. It dutifully tries to allocate all this memory, and the system immediately begins thrashing, ...
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Is it possible to run memtest on a system with mirrored memory? Will the test be valid/safe?
I recently built a workstation with 256GB of memory. Typically when testing a new system I like to run at least three full passes in memtest to make sure the memory is good. However, with 256GB of ...
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Can Intel-Core-i7-620M CPU work with a single 8GB RAM or it has to be 2 4GB RAMs?
My laptop PC has an Intel-Core-i7-620M CPU. Now, I want to upgrade the RAM from 4GB to 8GB. I checked this website to check the compatibility.
http://ark.intel.com/products/43560/Intel-Core-i7-620M-...
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Laptop RAM Details
I have Lenovo IdeaPad Z570 Laptop which is running on 6GB RAM. Once i typed sudo dmidecode --type 17 in the terminal i got the following output separated into 4 blocks.
So the questions are next:
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Assembling a number-crunching computer [closed]
What is needed to make a GPU fully fed by CPU?
Comparing their flops/s is enough?
For example, if i could manage to make a very old(pentium-3) CPU with one of Nvidia-Fermi GPU, it would not be able ...
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Computer inconsistently boots
So my problem is that I've built a tower out of older hardware to run DOS/DOS games on, it has 512MB of RAM, its using onboard VGA video output, one 5200RPM IDE HDD, and one SATA DVD drive. Now as the ...
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New PC Build - No Beeps and No Display
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No USB Power
No Display
No Beeps
Chasis Fans Not Working - Used to work on previous build.
1 of the PCI-E lanes does not light up.
Troubleshooting Steps
Try to boot using only one RAM stick, ...
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Game is very slow to load when computer is starting
One of a game I play (Overwatch, not to mention it) is very slow to load when the computer, using windows 10 x64, has been started for less than [at least] 5 to 10 minutes. VRAM usage is really low ...
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How to reduce memory usage after setting dedup=off (after having it on for a while)?
I know that setting dedup=on causes high memory usage and that it's almost never worth it (see e.g. https://serverfault.com/a/569099/208661). However I did turn it on in order to see how it works and ...
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Maximum RAM size bottleneck in i5-750 CPU with GA-P55-UD2 motherboard, can I tweak this to accept 32gb?
So I have a somewhat dated CPU (i5-750) and motherboard (GA-P55-UD2 rev 1.0) that are spec'd up to 16gb RAM, but that was when 8gb RAM sticks did not exist. I have read one thread where two users with ...
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Abnormally high memory usage Windows 2008 R2
I have a problem with my MS Windows Server 2008 R2 - every one-two days server causes BSOD with error 0x0000001d with tcpip.sys driver. There is abnormal huge amount of nonpaged pool bytes in poolmon.
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PC motherboard failed? [closed]
My Asus M4A77T motherboard appears (to me) to have died. These are the exact symptoms I observe:
the PC doesn't boot: when I press power, the CPU fan starts up, but then falls into a weird pattern of ...
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Performance of RAMFS
I am profiling some computation (video transcoding) on large datasets. Since I did not want my results to be influenced by I/O time (the system I am using has old/slow spinning disks) I though that ...
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