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What is the relationship between CPU usage and RAM?
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I have seen many times that the CPU usage is 100% and only 50% of the RAM is in use. What is the relationship between these two? How does one's performance affect the other?
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The CPU processes (performs instructions on things, such as adding) stuff in memory. RAM is just part of the memory pyramid (see below). So when you are processing lots of data, that data ( or maybe large portions of it) will likely get loaded into …
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