[ANN] BySoft FreeRAM 3.2

[BySoft]

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

 

[Rich G.]

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.

 

[nog]

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.

 

[Chakolate]

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

 

[derek / nul]

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

Yes, they just force programs to the paging file.

 

[zulu]

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/Article/ArticleID/41095/41095.html
The Memory-Optimization Hoax
by Mark Russinovich
http://www.sysinternals.com/

 

[Matt]

http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/41095/41095.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.

 

[Rod]

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