Questions tagged [ram]
Random Access Memory is a fast and volatile data-storage bank used in computers to store data and machine code currently being used.
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Swap full but all process terminated : does Linux free "orphans" pages when needed?
this is the first time I encounter a swap issue, I'm lost about how Linux is supposed to behave. I have a RHEL virtual machine running a batch processing RAM intensive application (100+GB RAM, 1GB ...
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VSTs run with LinVst use huge amount of RAM per instance
I'm trying to use a fairly average plugin in terms of CPU and RAM usage in Windows - Adam Szabo's Viper. In Windows it uses about 100MB per instance while running it through LinVst is uses 4GB per ...
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Tool to display DDR5 RAM SPD timings/MT profiles
Looking for a tool to display DDR5 RAM timings/MT profiles.
decode-dimms gives (both with and w/o sudo):
No EEPROM found, the kernel probably does not support your hardware.
sudo modprobe eeprom
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Preallocate large continuous memory block for legacy executable
I'm trying to develop J2ME game on Linux using this guide by microgram dev.
The j2me emulator from Oracle Wireless Toolkit works totally fine after Linux reboot.
I run some other apps like browser, ...
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When does Unified Memory Access (UMA) grow with demand?
My computer does not scale the UMA when it is maxed out.
My laptop has an integrated GPU (iGPU), 32 GB of RAM, and it makes use of UMA. Its UEFI firmware has the following possibilities to configure ...
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How to measure ram usage of a command [duplicate]
How to measure the memory usage of a running command in terminal? Does /usr/bin/time -v measure the RAM usage of a command?
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Can I install Linux on the drive I booted the installer from, if the installer is loaded into RAM?
I'd like to install HoloISO (a Linux distro based on SteamOS) to a USB drive, as a full install. I've read from various sources, including this question, that to install Linux on to a USB drive, you ...
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How to get the physical address of a file in RAM? [closed]
I have found a couple of related posts:
How to see information inside inode data structure
Is it possible to find the physical address of a file in disk?
But nothing quite answers my question. I have ...
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Linux OS does not see all the RAM allocated to the VM by Proxmox
I recently added a new VM in ProxMox for various web services. I originally allocated a minimum of 8GB of RAM with ballooning available to 16 GB. All seemed to be well until I tried installing ...
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copy Linux EXT filesystem use dd
I used binwalk to scan firmware image, uncompressed & raw RAM dump. When scan for signatures with -I flag there is reference to Linux EXT filesystem:
DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION
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RAM size devides by 2
I have home physical server for nextcloud, some sites, etc.
I build it 2 years ago and only recently noticed that instead of 16GB, only 8 are displayed and working. Used this command for check: wget -...
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How to limit ram usage of a process in Linux?
Consider a Linux process that is currently running. We want to limit the amount of RAM used by this process so that it does not interfere with the operation of the system. What tools or commands can ...
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why is all this swap space being used?
I have a Debian box, where I am doing some data recovery using ddrescue on a sata ssd. The process has been running for 24 hours, and has 24 to go (at least)
in any event, the PC has 16GB ram, and ...
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BadRAM Range: cannot set up the right range
I think my MacBook with soldered RAM has a RAM issue.
With memtest86+, I figured out which BadRAM pattern I have,
but I cannot interpret the result correctly.
How should I read the range to set up ...
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Do applications have priority over tmpfs for RAM usage (in the presence of swap)?
TLDR; If /tmp in mounted as tmpfs, in the presence of swap, is there any kind of priority when swapping ? Does tmpfs start to swap before applications ?
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I have a laptop with 32G of RAM (...
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