Questions tagged [memory]
RAM (random access memory), either RAM hardware or software and operating system use of RAM.
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Why am I having issues with RAM overclocking on an MSI B550 Tomahawk AMD motherboard?
I installed new RAM into my computer a few weeks ago (2 x 16 DDR4 3600Mhz) and I had to go into my BIOS and manually change the speeds from 2133 to 3600. I have an MSI B550 Tomahawk AMD motherboard.
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Issue with Booting into Windows After Installing Additional RAM on ASUS PRIME B650M-A WIFI II
I'm experiencing an issue with my PC where it fails to boot into Windows right away after restarting. Here's the situation:
Current Setup:
Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B650M-A WIFI II
CPU: 7800x3d
RAM: 4 ...
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Stuttering in games: CPU at fault?
5 months ago build a "mid-range" pc:
GPU: Powercolor 6750 XT.
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600.
Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus Elite B550m.(Bios version is the latest FFc. I believe it's beta because naming ...
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Is it possible to use odd number of DIMM4 memory stick?
My computer is about 5 years old and everything is based on ASUS X399-A that uses DIMM4 3200 RAM. CPU is AMD Threadreaper 1950.
After series of BSoD's I decided to do a memory test using MemTest86+ ...
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Why does htop/top show more resident memory usage than what the machine has?
htop and top show more resident memory consumption than physical memory present on a machine:
htop output:
top output:
free output:
pmap output:
https://gist.github.com/ixaxaar/1571308666360f65dc66
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Why does mixing 2 RAM sticks with different sizes/speeds result in lower "Configured Speed" than even the slower one by itself, but faster benchmarks?
I'm benchmarking my machine (4 core Intel i5-10210U CPU) using different RAM configurations possible using the original 8GB/2667MHz stick and another 16GB/3200MHz stick I cannibalized from a different ...
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Almost every APP is writing to the paging files instead of ram
recently i've been facing with this problem, even when i have RAM avalable, almost every thing goes to the paging files, it's driving me crazy, and the thing is, the programs are looking how much RAM ...
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What is the difference between ECC and DDR5's "Built-in Data Checking"?
I just learned that, as part of the standard, DDR5 memory has error correction built-in. However, according to this flyer from Intel, this is not the same as ECC memory:
Is DDR5 memory with built-in ...
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Why are secure system, system setting and secureApp.exe using too much RAM (tried DIMC.exe and sfc)?
I have a 4yr old Asus ZenBook 13 with i7 16GB. secure system and searcchApp.exe using too much RAM. It slows down a lot when only few apps are running. When there's higher demand it can get stuck. The ...
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My laptop turned off while running memory diagnostic test. Is this harmful to my laptop? [closed]
I was doing memory diagnostic test on my laptop with this command on run mdsched.exe. I forgot to put the charger while doing the test, and my laptop battery discharged while doing the test due to not ...
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What does the SD Association's formatter do differently from normal formatting utilities in Windows, macOS and Linux?
According to the SD Association, it is strongly recommended for SD Cards to be formatted using their own formatting utility.
I had largely ignored this until I was able to recover two SD Cards that ...
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64GB Ram on Dell G5 5590
Does anyone knows if this is 'file explorer' problem or the RAM problem?
I bought two bar of 32GB RAM (64GB kit) from Crusial last week and just installed it Saturday. Bios recognizes the new RAM, ...
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4x4Go vs 2x8Go RAM modules kits
I want to extend (16Go -> 32Go) the RAM of my PC:
motherboard ASUS X99-A II
CPU Intel Core i7 5820K
RAM CORDAIR VENGEANCE LPX 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz C15 Black
The original 4x4 kit is not ...
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Unsure why RAM usage in Firefox exceeded 32GB due to one specific tab
What had happened:
On Firefox (Version 132.0.2 (64-bit)), which is the latest update, opening a specific website link caused my RAM usage to go ballistic, exceeding the 32 GB of RAM I have available. ...
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ASUS DRAM light preventing boot
Recently I've been faced with a problem that caught me by surprise. An hour before the problem started I finished up setting up my PC in my new apartment and was ready to start getting everything ...
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What does "Multi-bit ECC" reported by dmidecode mean?
On some servers, dmidecode --type 16 reports:
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Physical Memory Array
Location: Other
Use: System Memory
Error Correction Type: Multi-bit ECC
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What does the "Multi-bit ECC" ...
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How slow can DDR4 RAM be?
I am having trouble reconciling this Samsung RAM page and the idea that RAM is supposed to be far faster than any SSD or HDD.
The page says that DDR4 RAM can transfer data at 2666Mbps, which is far ...
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Linux virtual machine boot taking way too long on refurbished windows 10 host
I have an Ubuntu VM that I mostly use as a Samba server. My host is a refurbished Dell laptop (Core I7) that seems to have seen heavy use , so I'm assuming portions of the SSD have been rendered ...
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Suspected memory leaked but can't solve it
To start, I got a problem where there are unknown memory usages that not shown in Task Manager nor Resource Monitor.
So, I look out for the similar problem here and found this post here.
I followed ...
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python don't see virtual memory on usb drive
I have a Python program that processes MP3 files into spectrograms. Processing a large number of spectrograms causes the virtual memory on my laptop to fill up very quickly, so I wanted to use a USB ...
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How do I reserve virtual memory, only (de)allocating physical memory on demand
I would like a large contiguous buffer, possibly larger than available RAM ('contiguous' in userspace virtual memory, not physical memory). As only parts of the buffer will be used, I would like to ...
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Troubleshooting Aorus 15 BSF randomly freezes with Crucial RAM
I've noticed annoying behavior in my Aorus 15 BSF laptop once I upgraded RAM.
This is Windows 11 laptop with i7-13700H, 4070 GPU and out of the box with 2 8GB DDR5-4800 memory sticks from Samsung (...
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System shows 4 RAM Slots available, but only 2 are visible
In my task manager "Memory" tab under performance, It tells me that 4 RAM slots are available. But when I open the cover of my laptop, there are only 2 RAM slots visible. Task manager ...
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Should I follow my processor manual or system motherboard specified max RAM?
I use an Asus X42JY model laptop with a Intel Pentium Processor P6200.
I want to upgrade my RAM from 4GB to 8GB, but the system motherboard manual specified that for this particular model, the max ...
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Advice needed on cleaning up storage on Windows 11 Home 23H2M (64 bit) after upgrading from Windows 10?
I’m a recent convert Windows 10 to 11. My 2015 HP laptop (4.0GB 2.20GZ) is bulging about now.
I want to clean out anything I can.
Storage has multi old Micro C Vis postings. I know you can delete ...
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Is the RAM that NICs (Network Interface Cards) have onboard sectioned into different areas similar to system memory/RAM? [closed]
Is the RAM that NICs have onboard sectioned into different areas similar to system memory/RAM? Like is it sectioned into buffers for receiving and sending network packets, the next section for DMA ...
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How do CAMM2, (R)DIMM, (C)UDIMM, and (C)SODIMM (S)DRAM differ? [closed]
With the recent advent of CAMM2 to replace SODIMM:
CAMM2 was designed to replace SODIMM and is better than DIMM so it is picking up speed for desktops.
...and CUDIMM to replace DIMM:
CUDIMM is ...
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Why is my machine not using swap memory?
I have a Rocky Linux installation with ~80 GB RAM, I configured it to use 75 GB swap
However, when I look at the results of "bashtop", I get the following result
Any indications as to why ...
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Killing errant processes on Windows 10. e.g. Firefox, Mathematica
I use Wolfram Mathematica. Running a computation in Mathematica usually involves entering details of the computation into a front-end notebook, pressing SHIFT-Enter, and having a kernel process ...
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How to enable dual channel memory mode on an Asus-WS-Pro-X570-ACE motherboard?
I have an Asus WS-Pro-X570-ACE motherboard, and plug two exact same memory sticks(Hynix,16GB,DDR4,2R*8) onto A2 and B2 slots of it according to the user manual about Enable Dual Channel section 1.4 (...
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Processes Getting Killed During Deep Learning Training (maybe due to High CPU Usage by 'netools'?)
My environment
OS : Ubuntu 20.04
core : 6
Hi,
I'm facing an issue where processes keep getting killed while running deep learning training in a Linux environment, as shown below.
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How to underclock RAM to reduce instability without preventing the system from booting?
After upgrading my BIOS from 2.6.0 to 2.8.0, my Dell Alienware R10 became unstable, with uptimes between about 0.5 and 20 hours. Downgrading the BIOS again, removing the CMOS battery, and Reinstalling ...
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What can be done about input on Windows system not working as expected on MacBook (2015)?
I have a MacBook Air (2015) with 256 GB of storage, on which I installed Windows.
And because of the storage, I had to delete the system drive, and only now Windows is installed on it.
But ...
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Why is an attempted upgrade of RAM with the same specs seemingly can't be used?
I use HP Pavilion Gaming 15-ec0xxx with 8GB RAM default. It still has one slot for upgrade so I decide to buy one.The current RAM is Samsung SODIMM DDR4 8GB 2666Mhz, so I buy exactly that.
Here's the ...
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Why has memtest stuck/froze on Windows 10 64 bit UEFI?
I left memtest running for a few hours but came back to this:
The cursor at the bottom left blinks but that's about it. Pressing the keys like Esc and Space do nothing.
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PC crashes after I STOP playing a game or end a stress test
It runs fine while I'm playing, browsing or doing any task; even when I ran a stress test with AIDA64, but whenever I close the game and the PC cools down, it's shuts down or crashes. This started ...
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Best memory / storage solution for high read / write throughput application(s)?
I have an application that uses a Raspberry Pi Model 4B (4GB RAM) running Raspberry Pi OS. Initially I was flashing the OS image to an SD card (and using that for storage as well), but I wanted faster ...
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RAM randomly disappearing on Mac
Since a few weeks, RAM is randomly disappearing from my laptop.
It's a mid-2010 13" MacBook Pro, with 2 slots, each filled with 4 GB of RAM.
So initially, the system indicated 8 GB of RAM.
A few ...
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Actual RAM usage of Linux system
I wanted to check RAM usage of my workstation but seems like I missed something. My system has 256 Gb of RAM (Ubuntu 20.04), absolutely no workload, htop says 4.7 Gb is used. Ok, but I need to know ...
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Excel process ratcheting up RAM use and becoming background process after closing
On two computers in my office, but none of the others, RAM usage continuously increases when working in certain workbooks in Excel. It appears that it happens with any workbook that has VBA macros, ...
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My HP laptop doesn't detect RAM
The BIOS of my HP laptop (Victus 16) suddenly stopped detecting a RAM of two RAMs. I checked on CPU-Z, but both rams are detected.
I've tried:
Running Windows Memory Diagnostics tool. It says there ...
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Memory issue in linux vm
I have a linux vm, where the memory usage is very high..
[]$ free -mt
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15885 13606 1998 ...
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Why are Average CPU Usage, Average Memory Footprint and Average Load Time marked as N/A in Chrome's discards database?
I read in chrome://discards/database:
Why are Average CPU Usage, Average Memory Footprint and Average Load Time marked as N/A in Chrome's discards database?
I use Chrome on Windows 10.
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Reading memory temperatures with i2c-tools
I am trying to read the temperatures of two DDR4 SDRAMS on my motherboard via Ubuntu 22. I can reach these memory temperatures with the HwInfo program on Windows, but the with i2c-tools on Ubuntu can'...
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recovering a notepad on a broken memory stick
So I'm not sure where to begin, I have a memory stick, Kingston Data traveler, 2.0, 30 GB, out of which I can use 29 Gb, now I have been using this stick for years, both for work and personal matters, ...
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What to do for PC components damaged by a motherboard?
I had built a PC with PowerX motherboard, WD blue HDD, 2 DDR3 RAM sticks and Intel processor.
It worked for around 9 months. While working on it one fine day, it turned off all of a sudden without any ...
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Where exactly are all the ‘millions’ of transistors present?
We often get to hear that there are millions of transistors in a computer.
Where exactly are these located?
The CPU involves clock, cache and registers.
The ALU / GPU would involve some transistors ...
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I would like to add swap space on my system running TrueNAS [closed]
First my hardware:
Gigabyte H55M-D2H
I5-650
2X4GB DDR3
GTX1030
128GB SSD
8TB HDD, RAIDZ1 (RAID5) usable 5.5TB
I would like to somehow increase to 16GB or 32GB RAM, however my motherboard only ...
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Are 2x2g Hynix HMT125U6DFR8C-H9 (DDR3 1333MHz]) RAM compatibility with my system?
I have desktop PC with motherboard GA-H81M-HD3. I know that there are newer ones with RAM 8G Kingston 99U5403-160.A00LF (DDR3 1600MHz, here).
Are 2x2g Hynix HMT125U6DFR8C-H9 (DDR3 1333MHz, here) RAM ...
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Run windows 10 software on older windows versions
I have an old laptop from 2013. With 6gb ddr3 ram. Installed windows 10 but unfortunately due to lack of memory many apps/games crash or don't even launch. I reverted back to windows 8.1.
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