On the day before Thanksgiving 2020, the Amazon Kinesis data streaming service in AWS' main region US-East-1 went down for several hours. The company explained the outage in its subsequent failure ...

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Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

I am monitoring servers on a network and it seems like the administrators have set custom levels for their virtual memory usage which seems to have caused exsessive page faults...Does anyone know why ...

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, ...

We have a Windows 2008 SP2 32-bit box with 4GB of ram Running SQL 2005. Task Manager's performance tab shows 3.2GB of memory in use. However, looking at the Processes tab, the Working Set + Commit ...

Before I get started, I want to point out that this article makes a couple of assumptions. First, I am assuming that you are running either Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 on a 32-bit ...

Virtual Memory or Page File is a type of memory that allows Windows to use part of the storage space a RAM, to improve the overall performance or when there is a need for extra memory. While Windows ...