Using heaps of ram

[Maxxwire]

I just took IE to stand for a browser - any browser. It was not supposed to be IE specific.

Thanks for clarifying that!

~Maxx~

 

[win7jak]

Ok, I get the drit now..."don't worry about the ram movement".
Thank you all for your consideration.

 

[Layback Bear]

I think it is just beautiful that a operating system (W7) just takes care of all that Ram stuff for us?

 

[Maxxwire]

Maxxwire, Check the cache in the morning after system start and then again at night before shutdown - you will already see a considerable difference in cache size (provided you have done many different things during the day).

I did as you suggested and there is some difference in the amount of RAM cached in Win 7 x64 with 8 GB of RAM. I was using my Vista x86 laptop also yesterday and it caches within a few MB of its entire 3 GB of RAM and I am wondering if the reason that the amount of RAM cashed in Win 7 is smaller might be because it has 266% more RAM on board to begin with?

~Maxx~
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[Wishmaster]

I run 8GB as well.

But for some reason, mine doesn't usually have anything free.

Typically around 2GB in use @ idle, the rest cached & showing 0 free is normal for mine.

I use a great deal of Video encoding tools though, so that may be why.
Then again, around 62-65 running processes at idle is normal for me too.

 

[Maxxwire]

I run 8GB as well.

But for some reason, mine doesn't usually have anything free.

Typically around 2GB in use @ idle, the rest cached & showing 0 free is normal for mine.

Wishmaster- I have just added your 'Super-DuperFetch' to the top of my Win 7 wish list!

~Maxx~
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[Keiichi25]

This is what I have running on Win 7 Ultimate x64, 8 gigs of ram and I think this is Day 4 or 5 uptime...

 

[Maxxwire]

Here are a few quoted from this article about Superfetch...

" If you open Task Manager (in Windows 7), it'll tell you Total, Cached, Available, and Free. The problems arise from the "Cached" figure, since this figure is generally substantially higher than the "Free" figure.

When people look at the Task Manager, and they see the figure for "Cached" compared to the number of "Free", people assume that only very little of their memory is available for the applications they are about to launch. What they forget is that the Cache filled by SuperFetch and the standard caching mechanism runs on a lower priority; in other words, memory requests by applications will always supersede SuperFetch.

In other words, whatever you see in the "Cached" figure is actually accessible to applications.

SuperFetch does not impact your every day computing experience in a negative way. SuperFetch makes often-used applications load fast - it doesn't make other applications load any slower. As such, turning it off, as some guides advise you to do, can only result in a slowdown, not a speed up."

~Maxx~
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[Wishmaster]

Those are good points Max, and I must say I agree.

This is the big reason why I think leaving Superfetch On, (Even with SSDs) is a excellent idea.

True SSDs are fast, but nowhere near as fast as RAM, so Superfetch is still very useful no matter what setup someone may have.

It can only help

 

[zigzag3143]

This is what I have running on Win 7 Ultimate x64, 8 gigs of ram and I think this is Day 4 or 5 uptime...

Uptime is 2:17:xx. showed in the task manager snip. and not bad for being up 2+ days


Ken

 

[Maxxwire]

Those are good points Max, and I must say I agree.

True SSDs are fast, but nowhere near as fast as RAM.

I was trying to explain that to someone the other day, but they just couldn't seem to process the information. Speaking of fast RAM I have 667 Mhz DDR2 RAM in my Vista computer and 1333 Mhz DDR3 RAM in my Win 7 computer and it makes an incredible difference when Win 7 grabs an entire GB of DDR3 RAM and performs a common RAM intensive task 10 times faster than the Vista computer can. Its just a thing of beauty to watch when Win 7 teams up with today's 2X faster RAM!

~Maxx~
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[Keiichi25]

This is what I have running on Win 7 Ultimate x64, 8 gigs of ram and I think this is Day 4 or 5 uptime...

Uptime is 2:17:xx. showed in the task manager snip. and not bad for being up 2+ days


Ken

Meh... Shows how often I look at certain things... I have had the computer on for much longer at times. Must have been the Flash update that PSI suggested to do. Lately I have gone on longer stints on my computer due to work and having to hop on for a raid as soon as I got home.