How do I kill standby memory?

@Wishmaster if your looking up websites / porn / youtube / shopping i agree. putting in memory to make these run faster is a good thing. but cached memory isnt free, it cached. Video games "REQUIRE" free memory to run properly, not cached. it means your computer is trying to cache and run a memory hog video game at the same time with minimal free memory. meaning your game lag like crazy ruining the experiance. i want my computer to run my game as best it can, not have website pre cached, understand?

Paul Hughes said:

@Wishmaster if your looking up websites / porn / youtube / shopping i agree. putting in memory to make these run faster is a good thing. but cached memory isnt free, it cached. Video games "REQUIRE" free memory to run properly, not cached. it means your computer is trying to cache and run a memory hog video game at the same time with minimal free memory. meaning your game lag like crazy ruining the experiance. i want my computer to run my game as best it can, not have website pre cached, understand?

imagine going to the store and all you want are ten items, as you walk down the ilse for your ten items your basket randomly files with random stuff and at some point theres nomore room for your ten items. its supposed to leave you space for stuff but it doesnt.


some of us dont want 100% of our memory mapping youtube videos, i want the purpose of my computer to be a server or play games with as much ram as it can use.


purpose of RAM (random assesed memory) is to be random memory, not mapping youtube videos so they run faster. standby memory is used memory, for some people thats a good thing, for me its a waste. it cant be good for your computer system to be mapping then dropping stuff in a constant battle over what memory is used for. every time my system hangs up, lags, or studders this has to be bad for my computer system.

Paul Hughes said:

Imagine going to the store and all you want are ten items; as you walk down the aisle for your ten items, your basket randomly fills with random stuff and at some point there's no more room for your ten items. It's supposed to leave you space for stuff but it doesn't.

Some of us don't want 100% of our memory mapping YouTube videos so they run faster; I want the purpose of my computer to be a server or play games with as much RAM as it can use.

I think you are spot on. A new feature of a recent Windows 10 update is that SuperFetch has been replaced by SysMain. This is a new AI-based memory-management service that tries to predict what programs or files you will run or open, so that they will run or open more quickly. As you can guess, it is an abject disaster, and seems to horrendously slow down the normal opening of files/programs or switching between them, as well as totally unnecessarily transferring data from disk to memory at every available opportunity. However, all is not lost: you can easily (and probably should) disable the `SysMain` service.