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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 ...
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How do I force a process to stay on even after logging out or move process out of user-space memory?

I am quite often uploading various big files to various websites with my web browser on a slow connection and not every website support resuming of the upload. Now my lsass.exe process consumes ...
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Associate a tab in Google Chrome with its process in task manager

How do I identify which process belongs to which tab in Google Chrome? Normally, I have a (ridiculously) large number of tabs open. If I need to free memory on my box, I would like to choose based ...
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The process “ati2evxx.exe” clogs half my RAM, how can I disable it?

I have a Windows XP 32-bit OS on my computer, which has been acting strange lately: the system REFUSES to shut down, standby or even hibernate. Sometimes, the system even randomly reboots with a split ...
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Escape the death of the OOM killer in Linux

Doing a bit of research I found it it is possible to tune or even make certain processes immune against the OOM killer by poking a value into /proc/pid/oom_adj I do of course need to find pid for my ...
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linux: per-process monitor, every 10 minutes, with history access

I really didn't know a better way to ask my question, hence you get a horribly named question. I will explain what i want to do, maybe that will help you help me. I would like to have my linux ...
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virtual pages associated with each running process

How can I list out all processes that are currently running on my system, and print the virtual pages allocated to it and number of page faults associated with each process?
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Review about Intel Dual Core G630 [closed]

I am bulding a SOHO company, now I got from Dell an offer for Intel G630 Processor with 4GB of ram. Would it be enough for me? I only need to run Office, Internet, Our ERP program (Access 2007 ...
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How can I find the processes which use the most memory? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I display the memory usage of each process if i do a 'ps -ef' For example, how can I find the top 20 processes that occupy the most memory? My Linux ...
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Windows 7x64 Using Too Much RAM and Slowing Down

I have been trying to figure out why this is happening to me. I have about 190+ processes running on my computer at any given point in time. Since I see a lot of people running like 20-30 at a given ...
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How to Track CPU and Memory Usage Per Process

I have seen this question asked on here before but was unable to follow the answer which was given. I would like to monitor a processes CPU, Memory, and possibly GPU usage over a given time. The ...
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How to bind a process with fixed memory? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I limit the memory usage of a specific process in linux? I am using Debian Linux server to run several processes. Server's memory size is 32 GB. Issue is ...
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In Windows 7, is there a way to know how much memory a service is using?

In windows 7, is there a way (by using common interface or a custom utility) to know how much memory a specific windows service is using ? It seems most services are hosted by svchost.exe processes ...
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windows running slow [closed]

lately my computer running slowly. i don't know the problem. but last time it get inffected by some kind of virus that create unknown process in my windows. i already scan it and cleand my computer. ...
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Is There A Way To Calculate Data In Task Manager?

Something takes a lot of RAM and i want to know what. I have list of running processes and need to know the sum of all of them because "In Use" does not help me to determine what takes most RAM: I ...
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How can I limit the number of child processes that MySQL spawns?

Is there a way to limit the number of children than mysqld spawns? Or should one not worry about that? My VPS only has 512MB of RAM. Here's the output of htop, after I set max_connections to 6 and ...
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Ubuntu detect memory leak

I run watch free and then observe a continuous memory used increment, about 100 every 2s. How can I know which process contribute to the used memory increment? top and pmap does not help. BTW, after ...
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The windows process itself takes up 1GB of RAM?

I've always thought that Windows runs using only 200MB of RAM. As can be seen from the images below, the processes I'm running only takes less than 50KB memory total. So why does the process shows ...
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Virtual memory vs. Virtual address space

I know virtual memory is a paging file that computer uses to store a part of RAM on hard disk for a running process. But how different is Virtual address space? is it the RAM or hard disk or both?
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XP memory/process limit

I've installed 4GB memory module, got more than 1 GB free RAM, however XP can't open window anymore. I knew there was a setting, we can increase a limit like thing, so I can open new things again. I ...
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Something is using up memory in OSX

I noticed that if I use OSX for a while, I get really low on memory and things start to get slow. I have been suspecting that something was not quite right, because in Activity Monitor I would look at ...
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Program to monitor processes with high CPU usage and memory consumption in realtime [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Software to monitor a CPU usage and RAM usage of a process? I need a program that monitors the top five (or similar) processes according to CPU usage and memory ...
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How to find memory hogs process explorer doesn't see [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Good Alternatives to Windows Task Manager I recently noticed that the physical memory graph on process explorer didn't appear to match up with the total working set ...
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How to mlock all pages of a process tree from console?

"mlockall() locks all pages mapped into the address space of the calling process" How to do it from console for a process tree? Something like lockall sh -c "read_data | process_data | write_data", ...
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gvfsd takes up too much memory

On my Ubuntu 8.10, gvfsd takes up 128.6MB memory. What is the process doing actually? Can I reduce the memory it takes?
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How can I dump the memory of a process in Windows 7?

Are there any tools to dump the running application from memory in Windows 7?
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Linux /proc/pid/status on Windows?

I use /proc/pid/status on Linux to find out the memory usage and process status. Is it possible to do the same thing on Windows?