Simple RAM recovery

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Hi, a few years ago i copied a really easy (2 or 3 line) Vb script from a web site allowing to free up to 128mb RAM... ive been testing tonight and the max i can recover at the mo is usually 430mb, so to save me booting up a memory util, can anyone give mt the code for a vb script to recover 430mb which i can then plac eon my desktop and run as and when :)

Cheers

--Jakk:t

[BFlurie]

FreeMem= 430000000

saved as a .js file. Note the required space after =.

[AllGamer]

interesting
are you guys sure this works?

by the way
what kind of RAM does it free?
the SWAP or the RAM RAM?

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Doesnt seem to do a great deal.... :(

Thanks anyways Bflurie

--Jakk:t

[Buji]

FREE MORE MEMORY (http://members.aol.com/AXCEL216/newtip15.htm#FMM)

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Thanks - i'll give that a go :)

--Jakk:t

[AllGamer]

tested it, it made me not a single 1k difference at all :confused:

how does it suppose to work?

[Bigjakkstaffa]

The second one buji posted the link to works okies for me...

--Jakk:t

[BFlurie]

Hmm, edit it to this & see if any difference:

FreeMem= (430000000)

AFAIK, it just releases some of Windoz' vcache (file-caching) mem. Course, it won't free up mem that Windows doesn't want it to. Note I think such methods are useless as Windows is well capable & able to free up memory when necessary. True memory-leaking programs are rare anymore.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

It needs to be:

Freemem= SPACE ( enter value )

subsitiute enter value with desired ram amount and close parthesis.

It saps a bit of power at first liek - although its handy for clawing back 50mb or so from windoze :D

--Jakk:t

[Buji]

Mine's tweaked to free up 134000000 as I have 384mb. When using Sysmon and my memory drops to say 198 free and I run the script it always goes back to 256 free. That's a bit more than a few kb. :) To be honest I really don't need to use it for the stuff I do. Just another bit to play with just in case.

[AllGamer]

Well now i see why it didn't work for me
i've dissabled all kind of cache
except for that little bit left on the RAMdisk :r:p
now i see having 2 gig of RAM it definitely have an advantage over tiny bits problems of this magnitude ;)

[BFlurie]

AG, I'm talkin 'bout vcache (files, FAT, etc in memory), not swap-file. In some ways these two are polar-opposites. I don't think you've disabled vcache (file-cache in W2K, XP) -- you would never want to. In fact, that's pretty much what vcache is, a RAM-drive of sorts.

[AllGamer]

VCache is a system whereby Windows 98 uses some RAM to speed up hard disk activity. The problem is that Windows is not very good about releasing that RAM for normal use once VCache is done with it. Win98SE was supposed to address this problem, however when working with large files such as a CD writer or large graphics files, Windows 98 may not reallocate memory until you reboot. When this happens it is often diagnosed as a "memory leak" and blame is usually directed at some poor innocent program that's just doing what it's supposed to do. Window's poor abilities to dynamically adjust VCache have inspired CacheMan, a program that makes it very easy for you to manually adjust VCache. If you manipulate large files for long periods and have noticed deteriorating performance when doing so, give CacheMan a try.
(Last updated: 9/7/01)



Cacheman 5.11 update

02/07/2002

A new version of Cacheman is out. Several bugs have been fixed in this release. Additionally the predefined profiles have been tweaked and the Win 2000/XP Paging file usage information Cacheman displays is more accurate now.


http://members.optushome.com.au/skinah/optimise98.htm#vc

well definitely Vcache is pointless in Win2k/XP since that doesn't apply
in Win2k/XP it has turned into the PageFile, which i don't use.

that Vcache thing is only good in Win3.11/95/98/ME

:t

so i was under the right impression. :D

[BFlurie]

Nope, vcache in W9X is the same as file-cache in NT-core. Likewise, win386.swp (swapfile) in W9X = pagefile.sys in NT-core. These two things are polar-opposites. Swapfile or pagefile is memory-data mapped to disk, vcache or file-cache is disk files & partition-tables loaded in memory. NT-core certainly uses file-caching -- no way to disable it (you can tweak it). You wouldn't want to, unless you want the system to run in super-slow motion.

[AllGamer]

refresh my memory, where to go or what can i use to tweak it? :D

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Tweak All 3 -- has a ram recovevery util and a couple of other useful lil tweak bits and bobs... well worth a look...saves a lot of time in regedit:)

--Jakk:t

[BFlurie]

Look here, AG:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=LargeSystemCache+tweak+registry&btnG=Google+Search

There's all kinds of opinions & even different effects 'tween w2K and XP. My Nt4 works slightly better w/LargeSystemCache set to zero, but it depends on your system & how you use it.

LargeSystemCache is referring to the file-cache in memory, NOT the swapfile.