FreeRAM is 32-bit win95/98/NT/2000/XP freeware
program that reclaims RAM from the operating
system and applications. This decreases load
time and improves application performance.

Features:
- Frees up RAM manually or automatically
- Easily free specified amount of RAM with shortcut
- Easily free predefined amount of RAM (5%, 10%, 20% ... 80%)
- Automatically or manually tunes system file cache
- Uses system tray
- Skin support
- Memory and CPU usage graph

Download from:
www.bysoft.com

PAD file:
www.bysoft.com/pad/freeram.xml

BySoft wrote:
> FreeRAM is 32-bit win95/98/NT/2000/XP freeware
> program that reclaims RAM from the operating
> system and applications. This decreases load
> time and improves application performance.

Has anybody used this or any similar programs under XP and noticed any
performance increases? I've got 1Gig of RAM and the time I used one (no
clue which) I didn't see any drastic changes.

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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 05:14:39 -0500, Rich G. wrote:

> BySoft wrote:
>> FreeRAM is 32-bit win95/98/NT/2000/XP freeware
>> program that reclaims RAM from the operating
>> system and applications. This decreases load
>> time and improves application performance.
>
> Has anybody used this or any similar programs under XP and noticed any
> performance increases? I've got 1Gig of RAM and the time I used one (no
> clue which) I didn't see any drastic changes.

Don't these programs just force disk caching? Not really a "reclaim" at
all.

"Rich G." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:(E-Mail Removed):

> BySoft wrote:
>> FreeRAM is 32-bit win95/98/NT/2000/XP freeware
>> program that reclaims RAM from the operating
>> system and applications. This decreases load
>> time and improves application performance.
>
> Has anybody used this or any similar programs under XP and noticed any
> performance increases? I've got 1Gig of RAM and the time I used one (no
> clue which) I didn't see any drastic changes.
>

It's my understanding that XP manages memory much better than previous
editions. RamIdle has made my life using ME much less irritating.

Chakolate

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necessarily science.
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:13:42 +0100, nog <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 05:14:39 -0500, Rich G. wrote:
>
>> BySoft wrote:
>>> FreeRAM is 32-bit win95/98/NT/2000/XP freeware
>>> program that reclaims RAM from the operating
>>> system and applications. This decreases load
>>> time and improves application performance.
>>
>> Has anybody used this or any similar programs under XP and noticed any
>> performance increases? I've got 1Gig of RAM and the time I used one (no
>> clue which) I didn't see any drastic changes.
>
>Don't these programs just force disk caching? Not really a "reclaim" at
>all.

Yes, they just force programs to the paging file.

BySoft wrote:
>
> FreeRAM is 32-bit win95/98/NT/2000/XP freeware
> program that reclaims RAM from the operating
> system and applications. This decreases load
> time and improves application performance.
>
> Features:
> - Frees up RAM manually or automatically
> - Easily free specified amount of RAM with shortcut
> - Easily free predefined amount of RAM (5%, 10%, 20% ... 80%)
> - Automatically or manually tunes system file cache
> - Uses system tray
> - Skin support
> - Memory and CPU usage graph
>
> Download from:
> www.bysoft.com
>
> PAD file:
> www.bysoft.com/pad/freeram.xml


http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Art...095/41095.html
The Memory-Optimization Hoax
by Mark Russinovich
http://www.sysinternals.com/

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:41:00 -0400, zulu@[127.0.0.1] wrote:

>BySoft wrote:
>>
>> FreeRAM is 32-bit win95/98/NT/2000/XP freeware
>> program that reclaims RAM from the operating
>> system and applications. This decreases load
>> time and improves application performance.
>>
>> Features:
>> - Frees up RAM manually or automatically
>> - Easily free specified amount of RAM with shortcut
>> - Easily free predefined amount of RAM (5%, 10%, 20% ... 80%)
>> - Automatically or manually tunes system file cache
>> - Uses system tray
>> - Skin support
>> - Memory and CPU usage graph
>>
>> Download from:
>> www.bysoft.com
>>
>> PAD file:
>> www.bysoft.com/pad/freeram.xml
>
>
>http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Art...095/41095.html
>The Memory-Optimization Hoax
>by Mark Russinovich
>http://www.sysinternals.com/

A right riveting read.

The basic fact, that the usual method of all of these "memory
releasers", is to allocate and then free a chunk of memory, so doing
that automatically when other applications are struggling for memory
is quite MAD.

The exceptions to that are:
1. The bias of memory allocation is wrong, and the system is not
aggressive enough in equalizing it.
2. Before running a memory demanding application.

Running a "free memory tool" will hurt everything immediately, in the
hope of helping things that want memory next, and if you generally
run in a style where only one program is important, then there is a
case for executing a one-off memory free before it.


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Matt <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:(E-Mail Removed):

Snipped some
> The basic fact, that the usual method of all of these "memory
> releasers", is to allocate and then free a chunk of memory, so doing
> that automatically when other applications are struggling for memory
> is quite MAD.
>
> The exceptions to that are:
> 1. The bias of memory allocation is wrong, and the system is not
> aggressive enough in equalizing it.
> 2. Before running a memory demanding application.

Totally agreed, on my old win98SE system both exceptions are common at
least once every week. For this I use a simple vbs-script:

FreeMem=Space(20000000)

Which tries to free 20Mb of RAM

Made a shortcut to it, very easy and IMHO more reliable than the programs
that do it automatically, tried a few, but they caused a lot of errors and
crashes on my system. This simple script does the work.

Rod