32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine | Random ASCII

32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine | Random ASCII – tech blog of Bruce Dawson

Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and Microsoft did indeed implement such a feature. However:They didn’t document this (!)Their implementation doesn’t actually save memoryThe implementation can have a prohibitively high CPU costThis feature works by…

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