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, ...

I have 10 Gb of ram.. is there a point where virtual memory becomes a performance decrease or becomes useless? Virtual memory is a hardware feature, and is required by most (all?) modern OSes. You're ...

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 ...

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, ...

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The Java team at Oracle is working to address two common cases in which a virtual thread parks or blocks and the underlying native thread is not released. Java’s virtual threads, introduced in JDK 21 ...