I have a new Mac mini with 16GB of RAM. So why does Activity Monitor show that EVERY single process is using some amount of virtual memory, even when there is about 10GB of unallocated RAM? Shouldn't ...

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, ...

Microsoft Windows includes a Virtual Memory section that enables you to increase the memory of a specific computer drive. For example, turning off the automatic paging file size, selecting the ...

My old Mac Pro seems to be getting slower and slower these days, even though I have relatively new 2Tb HDs and an updated GPU card. Looking through Activity Monitor to see if I can learn anything ...

The amount of memory used on your Mac computer can fluctuate depending on how memory is being managed. The term "memory," as defined by Apple, includes RAM, virtual memory and swap files, which are ...

Apple is adding virtual memory swap to iPadOS 16, allowing apps on the recent iPad Pro and iPad Air models to use free and available storage as extra memory for demanding workloads. With iPadOS 15, ...