Virtual threads are being proposed for Java, in an effort to dramatically reduce the effort required to write, maintain, and observe high-throughput concurrent applications. A draft JDK Enhancement ...

Virtual threads introduce an abstraction layer between operating-system processes and application-level concurrency. Said differently, virtual threads can be used to schedule tasks that the Java ...

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I have a new Mac mini with 16GB of RAM. So why does Activity Monitor show that EVERY single process is using some amount of virtual memory, even when there is about 10GB of unallocated RAM? Shouldn't ...

I think the rule of thumb is to set it 2x the amount of physical RAM. But since you already have 1 gig of physical RAM, so I doubt the page file makes much difference. Whatever you set it at, make the ...