Why it matters: A RAM drive is traditionally conceived as a block of volatile memory "formatted" to be used as a secondary storage disk drive. RAM disks are extremely fast compared to HDDs or even ...

Windows RAM usage is nowhere near as straightforward as Task Manager would have you believe. The operating system strategically fills unused memory with cache, compressed data, and recently used app ...

Cached memory is just what it says: RAM that's being used to cache information from the filesystem. The cache is managed so that if the RAM is needed for something else, it is used, automatically.

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 ...

I managed to gain some free performance.

A CPU relies on various kinds of storage to optimally run programs and power a computer. These include components like hard disks and SSDs for long-term storage, RAM and GPU memory for fast, temporary ...