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However, the "excessive" memory you are seeing is optional. It's being used for cache to save you disk access and whatnot, but if an app needs it, it gets it. Again, it's "optional" it can be discarded instantly if needed elsewhere. It's only being used to optimize performance and can be reduced at any time without having to write it out somewhere first. I would like to encourage you to go google some of this or search anandtech.

It's not a new topic and you're not the first person to ask this. Someone may be able to further optimize window's memory management but I guarantee it won't be you or me. About the memory bound thing, I was never memory bound with MB of ram, I just wanted more because I am using premiere and I have noticed the farcry has been getting really bitchy at times because it doesn't like being restricted to so little memory. Oh apparently this is a big enough problem that companies have actually released programs to PREVENT windows from using too much system cache.

Please let me know what I said IS correct. Oh wait I just realized somin, when I go to task manager and see that my system cache is MB it looks like it's all the memory that is in use at the moment but when I use Rambooster and try to free up 1Gb I see the system cache shrink to 33MB and after it's done it stays! Like I have hardly any background programs running and services too! Good luck with all that Goku. Originally posted by: goku Oh wait I just realized somin, when I go to task manager and see that my system cache is MB it looks like it's all the memory that is in use at the moment but when I use Rambooster and try to free up 1Gb I see the system cache shrink to 33MB and after it's done it stays!

Jul 4, 8, 0 0. Think about it this way: Why did you buy ram? To make your computer faster How does it make it faster? By using it OR not using it? By using it, of course. You WANT the OS to page as much usefull information into RAM as possible, every meg wasted is another meg you have to dredge up from the harddisk at a huge penalty to performance. Back in Win98 days when memory leaks ruled the world as your RAM filled up everything got slower, not because of cache or anything but because Win9x had the most god-awfull memory management sceme imaginable.

If you getting a performance penalty by the system using cache it's from bad memory management design in the OS itself and adding on some crappy POS software isnt' going to help any. I dont know, I would partly have to disagree with you guys with "memory" optimizers. I know for a fact that memory optimizers create redundant information to "fill up the ram" which in turn shoves parts of programs into the page file which can be useful some times on systems with low ram and inactive processes.

For example I am running Simcity 4 and I want it to run as fast as possible, so by using the program and forcing all the inactive processes into the page file I now have a great deal of physical ram just for Simcity4. Because had I not used rambooster, most of Simcity would have been paged resulting in poor performance which I have observed in previous instances.

Rambooster essentially makes it's self really big which in turn shoves everything into the pagefile and since Simcity4 is pretty conservative, it would normally have just gone into page file. I never run rambooster on powerful systems with lots of ram because I've never really had problems with lack of ram Only in extreme cases. I first close practically every process running which includes explorer and then run simcity 4 from taskmanagers run dialogue.

Oh Nothinman, you made a very good point about companies who write applications with no real purpose, just like palm readings. Never really thought of that! That's a great article, Drag. You frequently come up with some great reads. I gotta say reading through some of the comments afterwards really cracked me up.

Bunch of wannabees trying to discredit Mark Russinovich. Funny part is that every one of the guys as far as I know that WRITE the technet articles have a copy of Mark's "orange" book sitting on their shelves. FYI guys, you've all combined written half a book by now and I don't think goku is going to get it. Give him a "memory optimizer" and send him on his blissful way. Sim doesn't say anything to the system about the RAM. Or at least it shouldn't.

And it helps if you get the terms right when discusing this sort of things. Virtual memory isn't disk swap file. A disk swap is disk swap. I know that MS mixes the terms up a lot but Virtual memory is the amount of ram that system's programs percieve.

That's always going to be 4 gigabytes on a 32bit x86 system. That's virtual ram, it's done that way so that games and programs don't have to worry that much about memory and they let the OS take care of the details. This is one of those advancements put out by IBM back in the day. Otherwise I'd suggest a larger hard drive. You must log in or sign up to reply here. Show Ignored Content. Your name or email address: Do you already have an account?

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