Memory management stress testing: Lol, I love 7

JeremyJukes said:

Sorry but I did not quite understand your response. I have shut down virtual memory by setting the page file to zero. This is what shows in control panel


But when I look at task manager it continues to show cached memory

the page file is not (or related to) cache memory...

JeremyJukes said:

Sorry but I did not quite understand your response. I have shut down virtual memory by setting the page file to zero. This is what shows in control panel


But when I look at task manager it continues to show cached memory

Disable SuperFetch and/or ReadyBoost to adjust this - highly NOT recommended.

JeremyJukes said:

Sorry but I did not quite understand your response. I have shut down virtual memory by setting the page file to zero. This is what shows in control panel


But when I look at task manager it continues to show cached memory

What is the aim - what would you like to accomplish?

As an aside, pagefiles are not synonymous with "virtual memory". You can run without pagefiles, though it's a misguided idea in the vast majority of cases, but you can never get rid of virtual memory. Those two concepts operate on different levels.

"Cached" in this context means physical memory used by the OS to predictively preload what it thinks you're likely to use next (superfetch).