Techniques such as extracting operating parameters, comparing application profiles across VMs (to look for signs that one has been successfully attacked), and analyzing application behavior in memory (as opposed to just code stored on disk) are far easier in a virtual environment and provide a huge advantage for stopping the most sophisticated threats.
If shutting down an application frees a lot of memory and doesn't cause problems, look at the listings in the System Configuration Utility's Startup tab for those same tray programs you deem unnecessary--for example, the RealPlayer StartCenter.
That part of the kernel handles application crashes, reporting on where in memory they happened.
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Both companies support industry-wide adoption of the high-speed specification, which would facilitate faster acceptance of toggle DDR memory with hardware engineers and application designers.
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This modeled application of an STT-MRAM integrating the memory as cache memory and recorded a two-thirds reduction in power consumption by a standard mobile chip set carrying out standard operating functions, a result confirming that the new MRAM element has the lowest power consumption yet achieved.
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Using a combination of HDD and flash memory in either a hybrid HDD or a dual storage notebook computer, where frequently used data (and possibly the operating system and application software) is kept in the flash memory, while the bulk of user content is kept on the HDD, has been shown to provide about 80% of the performance improvements of a pure SSD-based computer.
Rohrer built the application and stored the only copy on a flash memory drive, which he showed to the GDC crowd.
This is enormously faster than conventional DRAM memory and is targeted initially for network switching application as well as high performance computing.
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Retrieving and storing data from a hard-disk drive takes one million times longer than accessing it from server memory, a difference that can severely degrade application performance.
Like that other Series 7 laptop we reviewed recently, that HDD is paired with 8GB of flash memory to help cut start-up and application launch times.
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Flash memory as a cache for HDD arrays is a popular application in enterprise environments.
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In developing early data processing systems, the high cost of memory and storage led to a premium being placed on the efficiency of application data access and retrieval.
Also, the LSI WarpDrive card's very low overhead consumption of server processor and DRAM memory resources enables even higher performance by leaving these resources available for useful application processing and data caching.
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