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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ? FULL STORY I have a laptop with 32G of RAM (...
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