OS X Lion's FileVault technology may seem to make encrypted virtual memory redundant, but maintaining encryption even with FileVault 2 enabled is likely a good idea. Topher, an avid Mac user for the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Apple has publicly touted a significant new feature in OS X 10.9 Mavericks designed to maximize RAM, storage and CPU use while also boosting power efficiency: Compressed Memory. The new Compressed ...

I have a question and I hope someone can help. When I have VM machine requirements, how can I determine the physical requirements? for example when I have to build a server that will run 4 VM's ...

The biggest feature of iPadOS 16 will only run on the M1 iPads — and it is using advanced memory management to do it. Introduced at WWDC 2022, iPadOS 16 brought floating windows to iPad for the first ...