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.

Paging Virtual memory breaks programs into fixed-size blocks called pages. If a computer has abundant physical memory, the operating system loads all of a program's pages into RAM.

Virtual Memory swapfiles and OS X performanceA. 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 ...

Any modern OS will use all available memory for caching, which is great for physical machines, but not great for virtual machines, since the host can make better overall caching decisions than the ...

Memory Hierarchy Design – Part 3. Memory technology and optimizations, which examined innovations in main memory that offer improved system performance This installment, which examines architecture ...

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The term hard drive refers to the actual storage medium — either in the classic sense with rotating magnetic discs (HDD) or ...

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.

It intercepts calls to the peripheral devices and memory tables from each guest OS and intercedes on its behalf (see virtual memory).