System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designers have a problem, a big problem in fact, Random Access Memory (RAM) is slow, too slow, it just can’t keep up. So they came up with a workaround and it is called cache ...

When talking about CPU specifications, in addition to clock speed and number of cores/threads, ' CPU cache memory ' is sometimes mentioned. Developer Gabriel G. Cunha explains what this CPU cache ...

I've run into this with Horizon Zero Dawn when it first launched on PC, Escape from Tarkov, and more recently Grey Zone ...

To free up RAM in Windows 11, start by auditing startup programs. Open Task Manager's Startup tab and disable anything you don't actively need running at boot. Many programs launch automatically just ...

I have a database VM running on RHEL 6. It's configured for a large amount of RAM: 160 GB. However, 99% of the time, well over 120 GB is listed under "cached" (as viewed with "free -g"). I was always ...

One of the greatest challenges facing the designers of many-core processors is resource contention. The chart below visually lays out the problem of resource contention, but for most of us the idea is ...

The year so far has been filled with news of Spectre and Meltdown. These exploits take advantage of features like speculative execution, and memory access timing. What they have in common is the fact ...

January 11, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google We've previously shown you how to move your Firefox cache to system memory, but a dedicated RAM disk might be a ...

Multiple PC OEMs are selling laptops outfitted with Intel Optane cache drives -- but they're improperly combining that information in ways that makes it seem as if the Optane cache drive represents ...