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Process Explorer not showing the biggest user of my RAM
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Mar 15, 20265494 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Does anyone know why Process Explorer might show these weird values for memory usage of my Virtual Box instance? Here are the real numbers: But here's what Process Explorer is showing: So the process has committed 1.2 GB of VM, 1.1 GB of which is private. But Process Explorer is only seeing 196 MB …
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Mark Russinovich has kindly explained that this occurs because VirtualBox locks a large amount of memory, which requests the OS to keep it in the working set. However, if you just try ing a bunch of RAM, you won't see this. All that RAM will be happ…
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