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How to control RAM / swap usage

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Mar 15, 202626985 views

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Is there a way (application) to control RAM / swap usage policy at application level. I have some applications that I use all the time and I want them to stay in RAM all the time and there are also application that I use quite seldom and they might be thrown to swap at demand. I know that default c…

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Yes there is: have the program call the VirtualLock function: Pages that a process has locked remain in physical memory until the process unlocks them or terminates. These pages are guaranteed not to be written to the pagefile while they are locked.…

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How to control RAM / swap usage

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