Editor's Note: Demand for increasing functionality and performance in systems designs continues to drive the need for more memory even as hardware engineers balance the dynamics of system capability, ...

A. Brody has updated his Mac OS X Installation FAQ to include information about how too little free hard disk space (often combined with too little physical RAM!) can lead to insufficient space for ...

Simulating more random access memory (RAM) than actually exists, which allows the computer to run larger programs as well as multiple programs concurrently. Actually developed back in the 1950s, ...

Virtual memory, also known as the swap file, uses part of your hard drive to effectively expand your RAM, allowing you to run more programs than it could otherwise handle. But a hard drive is much ...

I hope this is the correct forum... it doesn't fit snugly into any of them, really.<BR><BR>Anyway- I understand there's a difference between a "swap partition" and "virtual memory" beyond PC/Mac ...

Earlier this year, Amazon’s AWS group said that it was working on bringing instance types with between 4 to 16TB of memory to its users. It’s now starting to fulfill this promise as the company today ...