Smart Ram / Ram Boosters

spazzie said:

Interesting to note Windows 2008 Server R2 has no such prefetching service 'built in' and is therefore optimised for Enterprise applications.

Of course, servers often serve up files to the user or run a couple of select applications (like SQL, Exchange, IIS, etc). So, there is no value really in trying to cache any applications since most start automatically. It's not often that an admin logs into the server and runs user based applications..like Microsoft Office, firefox, photoshop, etc.

spazzie said:

Back to running Windows 2008 Server R2 x64 on the desktop lol

Or within Windows 7 simply disable SuperFetch. And I seem to recall you said you were running on a Pentium 4 3.2Ghz system...that won't run 64-bit anyway.

spazzie said:

By design Vista / Windows 7 use all available RAM for caching applications running on SATA, ultra fast RAID disks even SSD drives rather than leaving the RAM for the 'user space' so we can experience a responsive computing experience that isn't weighed down by user/OS RAM contention issues.

Seems to me a winstat mem test showed that my RAM was moving approx 7GB/s. That crushes any hard drive or RAID config I have ever seen.

Also, that so called "used RAM" is available and can be as quickly overwritten as free RAM. I simply fail to see where the performance bottleneck occurs here and where all of this contention is coming from.

spazzie said:

Interesting to note Windows 2008 Server R2 has no such prefetching service 'built in' and is therefore optimised for Enterprise applications. Pity Microsoft can't do the same on the *users* desktop.

Actually it does, but it is set to background processes not your applications like IE or Firefox. A server OS is tailored to run background processes.

Here we go again

Ken

Fast forward...

One day, all RAM will have onboard batteries. Spazzie's grand-daughter will marry Bill Gates III and the world will live as one.

logicearth said:

Actually it does, but it is set to background processes not your applications like IE or Firefox. A server OS is tailored to run background processes.

Prefetch or Superfetch? I see no superfetch service in Windows Server 2008 R2

Unlike Superfetch, prefetch does work, great explanation here:
JSI Tip 5826. What is the Windows XP Prefetch?

As a test, I turned prefetch off in XP and performance blows. So the next test is Windows 7 prefetch on, superfetch off for all round performance less all the disk/RAM contention between the users workload and the OS ..its akin to the user fighting with the OS for resources and that IMO is poor programming by Microsoft.

Superfetch = Off... And lol.. Spazzie banned ^^

Neverending story about ram optimizers - most popular myth since Windows XP. I think that it would be nice to collect such myth in one post and made it sticky - it would save money and time for those who still believe in such applications.