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How can I reduce the consumption of the `vmmem` process?

I installed docker on windows home which uses WSL2 as a backend. However, since doing this a process called vmmem seems to be consistently consuming a lot of computational resources. I ran docker stop $(docker ps -aq) to kill all running containers…
CiaranWelsh
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Does a computer use fewer resources when programs are minimized?

When programs are minimized in Windows 7, do they use less memory and CPU than leaving them maximized?
jao
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What does 'Highest active time' for disk activity in Windows resource monitor mean?

I know what the disk io, disk queue length and other measures are, but what does 'Highest active time' mean? Is it the amount of time it is busy handling requests, or something else? When it is high, does it mean the CPU is busy doing some IO work,…
Nick R
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Resource monitor for OS X

In Windows, you can get an overview of your computers resources and activities by going into the Task Manager. It also shows which task is consuming the most CPU cycles and RAM. Is there a similar tool built into OS X? I know top comes with OS X,…
Josh Hunt
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Fully remove a default program association for file types in Windows 10?

Not a single answer from here worked for me. I want to delete the .resource association with Total Commander. Approach 1 I open registry, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\\.resource\OpenWithList and…
Yaroslav Trofimov
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What are the weird images inside the RCDATA of System32/imageres.dll used for?

I was looking at what's inside C:/Windows/System32/imageres.dll (which contains most icons used by windows 8.1) and noticed it also contains some files inside its RCDATA which are not image files. After opening those files in Notepad++, I noticed…
user169819
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Possible to extract compiled flash file?

I need to get string data from compiled flash .exe file. This file using project.exe to compiled from *.swf Is it possible to extruct and get string data?
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How can I reliably check how much resources do processes take up? (Is there a WinDirStat for RAM, CPU, etc?)

I've been using WindirStat for quite some time and am amazed by how efficiently and clearly it shows which content takes up space on my computer. The rectangles are grouped by folder and extension. You can always see where all the space on the HDD…
Stas Bichenko
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Windows, why your 8 GB of RAM feel like a few MB?

I'm on Windows 7 x64 with 4-core Intel i7 and 8 GB of RAM, but lately it feels like my computer's "RAM" is located solely on the hard drive. Here is what the task manager shows: The total amount of memory used by the processes in the list is just…
Desmond Hume
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Which MS Office version is the most Netbook-friendly?

My sister has just bought a mid-range netbook, not sure about the exact spec. We're trying to figure out which version of MS Office would be the most resource friendly. The current options are Office 2003, 2007 and 2010, where 2003 is probably a…
Eran
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How can I get Linux to show total CPU usage?

I want to show how much the CPU is used over time. Using system monitor, I am able to show CPU usage, but only the 4 individual cores. I want to be able to show a graph of the total CPU usage. In other words, CPU core 1+2+3+4 = total, total <- graph
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Excel ran out of resources while attempting to calculate one or more formulas

I received the error message "Excel ran out of resources while attempting to calculate one or more formulas" on ONE of my computers (Out of 2). My worksheet contains: (Inside a single worksheet, not workbook, there are formulas in another…
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How much resources are used during a RDP connection?

Having recently installed a RDP app on my mobile device and got me wondering: this small device which has a limited amount of resources compared to the PC I'm connecting to, is still able to operate my remote machine to almost full capacity. With…
James Mertz
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How to monitor folder size on Linux?

Is there a way to monitor and log folder size in Bash/Ubuntu? I'm running some computations and I need to know how much disk space they need. They may create some temporary folders for a few minutes/hours. In fact, I need only a peak size of this…
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Why is `ulimit` not limiting the memory usage as I expect?

I am trying to limit the memory usage of a process $ulimit -m 2 $/usr/bin/time -l ./myProcess arg1 arg2 The process run without being killed until time outputs 7.00 real 4.83 user 2.16 sys 4154855424 maximum resident set…
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