RAM Defrag tool

Just for grins I installed and messed around with CleanMem. My memory usage looked just about the way it does anyway. Many of my task tray hotkey apps I call EmptyWorkingSet() to return unneeded memory to the system. I noticed after running it using the mini-monitor where you could manually trigger it, my copies of chrome.exe in memory went from 25-35 MB each in Task Manager to a couple of MB. But after a few seconds/minutes the usage was right back up there.

I found with chromium it's better to use --renderer-process-limit=n switch to keep the number of instances from going wild.

The long of it and short of it, didn't do any harm, didn't really do any good as my system is tuned to only park a couple hundred MB in the page file. My typical peak page file usage is about 225 MB. With CleanMem it actually went up to about 330 MB. Inconsequential. But on my system there seems no point in running it. It may help more on systems with only 1 GB ram.
 

My Computer My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
HP Media Center
OS
Windows 7 32 bit
CPU
AMD 5200+ dual core
Memory
2 GB
Graphics Card(s)
NVidia GeForce 6150SE 128 MB
Monitor(s) Displays
CRT
Screen Resolution
1280x1024
Hard Drives
500 GB Sata internal :

SIIG USB 3.0 docking stations w/WD Caviar Black 6 Gb/s drives
Keyboard
PS/2
Mouse
PS/2 Wheel Mouse
Other Info
SIIG USB 3.0 PCIexpress card.
Mem cleaners? in 2012? I thought they (should) have died with Geocities...lol
Waste of time.
 

My Computer My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Moi
OS
Win7 Ultimate x64 7601
CPU
AMD Phenom II x4 955 Black Ed @ 3.60
Motherboard
ASUSTeK M3N72-D
Memory
8 Gig Kingston
Graphics Card(s)
nVidia 295GTX, nVidia 9800GT
Screen Resolution
1680x1050 + 1280x1024 x2 + 1280x768
Hard Drives
500GB Spinpoint F3 x2 in Hardware RAID0
PSU
Thermaltake 850w
Cooling
Arctic Cooling
Keyboard
OCZ
Mouse
Ozone Smog
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