My old Mac Pro seems to be getting slower and slower these days, even though I have relatively new 2Tb HDs and an updated GPU card. Looking through Activity Monitor to see if I can learn anything ...

Microsoft Windows includes a Virtual Memory section that enables you to increase the memory of a specific computer drive. For example, turning off the automatic paging file size, selecting the ...

I have a new Mac mini with 16GB of RAM. So why does Activity Monitor show that EVERY single process is using some amount of virtual memory, even when there is about 10GB of unallocated RAM? Shouldn't ...

Virtual memory is a valuable concept in computer architecture that allows you to run large, sophisticated programs on a computer even if it has a relatively small amount of RAM. A computer with ...

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The paging file, also referred to as “Page File” and “Virtual Memory,” is essential for the system to manage memory efficiently. It removes infrequently accessed modified data from physical memory, ...

As I've noted in the two previous installments in this series, Windows 10's Hyper-V platform is the ideal way to test-drive a new feature update before trusting it to production hardware. If you've ...