Windows 7 - Superfetch

Have they changed its code in some fundamental way? I always used to have to disable it eventually on vista as it was very greedy with ram, quite frequently leaving me with very little head room. But, on Windows 7 it seems incredibly well behaved. It's almost as if is not enabled.

How much RAM do you have installed?




















Later Ted

A pultry 1.5GB atm and vista quite frequently went to 60-70% with nothing running. Windows 7 stays closer to 35%.

Here's a couple, scroll down on the first one.

Engineering Windows 7

and a second.

http://www.sevenforums.com/performan...i-love-7-a.htm

Here's this.

Welcome to Windows 7










Later Ted

Superfetch only uses the RAM when the system doesn't require it, it will page it out if the system wants more RAM so you don't have to disable it

Superfetch using the RAM when possible is a good thing actually, why waste it if it's not being used..put it to good use.

Funny how, on modest systems, XP is still faster than vista without superfetch and indeed vista is faster than vista without superfetch. It's almost as if the process isn't as good in practice as the theory would suggest. In practice, superfetch causes the system to go to the page file more often.

Explore the features: Performance

Explore the features: SuperFetch


















Later Ted

Sorry, did you have a point? I missed it.

I've been in too many SuperFetch discussions and there's nothing to be gained by participating in another one; I'm sorry I tried to help.













Later Ted

Well, getting back OT, I'm worried that all they've actually done is disabled the part of the code that made it behave so poorly in vista for the duration of the beta, because it clearly doesn't swallow 50% of memory anymore. How can it do its job if it's not actually caching anymore? I mean, if the current implementation is now the standard, does that mean MS finally realised it wasn't the correct way to do things previously?