• Virtual memory compression (also referred to as RAM compression and memory compression) is a memory management technique that utilizes data compression...
    24 KB (2,667 words) - 07:46, 15 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Virtual memory
    In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage, is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that...
    43 KB (5,351 words) - 14:51, 13 July 2025
  • Zswap (category Virtual memory)
    of virtual memory compression. Instead of moving memory pages to a swap device when they are to be swapped out, zswap performs their compression and...
    12 KB (1,132 words) - 02:21, 30 January 2025
  • Zram (category Virtual memory)
    compression, April 3, 2013, LWN.net, by Dan Magenheimer The Compression Cache: Virtual Memory Compression for Handheld Computers, March 16, 2000, by Michael J...
    7 KB (703 words) - 22:49, 16 March 2024
  • commands. The company pioneered several technologies, including virtual memory compression systems, switching between multiple protected mode operating environments...
    10 KB (568 words) - 14:59, 11 April 2024
  • various elements of FreeBSD (including the process model, network stack, and virtual file system), and an object-oriented device driver API called I/O Kit....
    46 KB (2,765 words) - 17:39, 31 July 2025
  • C dynamic memory allocation refers to performing manual memory management for dynamic memory allocation in the C programming language via a group of functions...
    36 KB (4,141 words) - 04:19, 26 June 2025
  • minimal use of energy and minimal chip area. 842 compression can be used for virtual memory compression, for databases — especially column-oriented stores...
    5 KB (521 words) - 21:14, 27 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Garbage collection (computer science)
    (computer programming) Dynamic dead-code elimination Smart pointer Virtual memory compression Abelson, Harold; Sussman, Gerald Jay; Sussman, Julie (2016). Structure...
    40 KB (4,062 words) - 02:07, 29 July 2025
  • QEMM and still allow the use of QEMM's Stealth feature. It was a virtual memory compression utility for Windows 3.1, Windows For Workgroups and Windows 95...
    22 KB (3,171 words) - 14:52, 24 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Texture compression
    image compression algorithms, texture compression algorithms are optimized for random access. Texture compression can be applied to reduce memory usage...
    6 KB (719 words) - 06:00, 26 May 2025
  • Compressed Memory is a virtual memory compression system which automatically compresses data from inactive apps when approaching maximum memory capacity...
    39 KB (2,764 words) - 01:28, 2 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Computer memory
    the computer memory can be transferred to storage; a common way of doing this is through a memory management technique called virtual memory. Modern computer...
    29 KB (3,273 words) - 09:28, 5 July 2025
  • Lempel–Ziv–Oberhumer (category Lossless compression algorithms)
    compression method for RAM drive compression. zswap uses LZO as the default compression method for virtual memory compression Arnaud Bouche (2008-01-01). "LZO...
    5 KB (526 words) - 00:52, 6 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Drum memory
    default virtual memory (swap) device, deriving from the historical use of drum secondary-storage devices as backup storage for pages in virtual memory. Magnetic...
    10 KB (1,242 words) - 20:47, 30 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Random-access memory
    systems have a memory hierarchy consisting of processor registers, on-die SRAM caches, external caches, DRAM, paging systems and virtual memory or swap space...
    58 KB (5,861 words) - 13:52, 5 August 2025
  • Executable compression is any means of compressing an executable file and combining the compressed data with decompression code into a single executable...
    30 KB (2,544 words) - 22:40, 18 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Content-addressable memory
    Content-addressable memory (CAM) is a special type of computer memory used in certain very-high-speed searching applications. It is also known as associative memory or...
    14 KB (1,603 words) - 21:01, 25 May 2025
  • Deflate (stylized as DEFLATE, and also called Flate) is a lossless data compression file format that uses a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding. It was...
    29 KB (3,192 words) - 22:57, 24 May 2025
  • computer is cleaned up after usage (e.g. freeing resources such as virtual memory). This might include such activities as removing or archiving logs that...
    2 KB (263 words) - 10:30, 15 March 2025
  • available random-access memory in Microsoft Windows without the need for a hardware upgrade, which is possible using memory compression. However, it was later...
    14 KB (1,315 words) - 17:51, 14 February 2025
  • Semiconductor memory is a digital electronic semiconductor device used for digital data storage, such as computer memory. It typically refers to devices...
    36 KB (3,551 words) - 15:24, 11 February 2025
  • disk compression software utility increases the amount of information that can be stored on a hard disk drive of given size. Unlike a file compression utility...
    26 KB (2,651 words) - 10:01, 27 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Memory hierarchy
    general memory hierarchy structuring. Many other structures are useful. For example, a paging algorithm may be considered as a level for virtual memory when...
    12 KB (1,212 words) - 05:47, 6 August 2025
  • Non-volatile memory (NVM) or non-volatile storage is a type of computer memory that can retain stored information even after power is removed. In contrast...
    18 KB (1,929 words) - 22:07, 24 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Vmlinux
    Vmlinux (section Compression)
    UNIX platforms called the kernel image /unix. With the development of virtual memory, kernels that supported this feature were given the vm- prefix to differentiate...
    8 KB (828 words) - 20:26, 21 October 2024
  • Volatile memory, in contrast to non-volatile memory, is computer memory that requires power to maintain the stored information; it retains its contents...
    3 KB (306 words) - 09:53, 19 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for MUSIC/SP
    system provided no support for virtual memory and address translation. Only one active user could reside in core memory at any time. Swapping (to disk)...
    11 KB (1,252 words) - 08:50, 18 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Synchronous dynamic random-access memory
    of RDRAM because VCM was not nearly as expensive as RDRAM was. A Virtual Channel Memory (VCM) module is mechanically and electrically compatible with standard...
    82 KB (8,896 words) - 05:59, 6 August 2025
  • Thumbnail for Flash memory
    software from NAND memories, virtual memory strategies are often used: memory contents must first be paged or copied into memory-mapped RAM and executed...
    188 KB (17,279 words) - 05:35, 6 August 2025