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. The new Compressed ...

Windows quietly squeezing memory so your PC doesn't have to panic.

I'm running the general release windows 10 on an thinkpad x220 with vanilla drivers and all the current updates. The system has 16GB of RAM with only ~4gb usage so there's no memory pressure at all.

Windows RAM usage is nowhere near as straightforward as Task Manager would have you believe. The operating system strategically fills unused memory with cache, compressed data, and recently used app ...