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Cleaning up clutter from memory
I bought an SSD and one of the tweaks is to disable pagefile. I anyways had pagefile disabled, but waited for the right time to ask about before getting dissed for not using a pagefile when I should.
So the thing is, what the Task Manager shows as Memory (Private Working Set) has no real meaning without a pagefile. What is actually used it much more, in fact I think it is the Peak Working Set. Without a pagefile, there is no way to clean up the allocated RAM spaces within each process' allocations. Paging in and out cleans up the clutter, hence usually gives much better RAM usage results.
With few programs open, if I try to launch COD4, it would eventually say I have run out of RAM because the RAM usage rockets passed 80% which is when the warning appears. But I am yet to crash the system without a pagefile...at least on Windows 7. I crashed Windows Vista twice like that, but 2 crashes in 3 years is something I can live with
But it would be better to do something about the RAM usage. Apparently, closing the apps and reopening helps. But it is a pain for apps such as MSE and services and DWM etc.
My question is, is there anything I can do? Will RAM defraggers or whatever help in this situation? What I think is, they also use the pagefile to clean up the RAM. That's why after running such a tool, the system is very slow because of the stuff is in the pagefile and aren't moved back to RAM.
Any thoughts on this?
P.S.
I would upgrade to 8GB RAM, but my mobo has trouble with 8GB especially when OCed.