OnCore Systems has developed a port of its embedded operating system (OS) for the PowerPC 405 that uses features of the on-chip memory management unit (MMU) to reduce the effects of using memory ...

Modern computers are generally equipped with RAM, which is the main memory, and HDDs and SSDs, which are the auxiliary storage devices, as storage media. HDDs and SSDs are suitable for storing large ...

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 ...

Until recently, an explanation of memory management would have amounted to a description of a computer’s virtual memory implementation. Now however, memory management encompasses organizing frequently ...

Virtual memory is one of those leading-edge technologies that is impacting the tech sector in many ways and even improving the average office environment. In fact, it's estimated that this technology ...

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, ...