Cacheman usefulness with XP

[Daniel Prince]

Is the program on the Pricelessware site called Cacheman useful on
Windows XP Home? It supposedly improves memory and disk cache use.

I have a Barton 2500+ with a gig of ram. Right now I have quite a few
programs open and Statbar says that I have 702 megs of free ram. My
page file has grown from the start size of 40 megs to 53 megs.

Thank you in advance for all replies.

 

[Fuzzy Logic]

Is the program on the Pricelessware site called Cacheman useful on
Windows XP Home? It supposedly improves memory and disk cache use.

I have a Barton 2500+ with a gig of ram. Right now I have quite a few
programs open and Statbar says that I have 702 megs of free ram. My
page file has grown from the start size of 40 megs to 53 megs.

There is now CachemanXP which is designed specifically for XP. The original
Cacheman did wondeers for my Windows 98 SE machine and was shareware. Many
of most useful features of CachemanXP are disabled unless you pay for it.

XP does a pretty good job of managing memory on it's own.

 

[Fred]

Is the program on the Pricelessware site called Cacheman useful on
Windows XP Home? It supposedly improves memory and disk cache use.

I have a Barton 2500+ with a gig of ram. Right now I have quite a few
programs open and Statbar says that I have 702 megs of free ram. My
page file has grown from the start size of 40 megs to 53 megs.

Thank you in advance for all replies.

Have just removed O&O filecache (trial, not freeware) from my machine.
Had not noticed any improvement during a one week period.

Windows XP Home and 256 ram. I'm not a heavy user, just surfing and
occasionally some picture work.

Regards, Fred

 

[monkeyman]

Is the program on the Pricelessware site called Cacheman useful on
Windows XP Home? It supposedly improves memory and disk cache use.

I have a Barton 2500+ with a gig of ram. Right now I have quite a few
programs open and Statbar says that I have 702 megs of free ram. My
page file has grown from the start size of 40 megs to 53 megs.

Thank you in advance for all replies.

You have already solved the problem RAM managers address: inadequate
RAM. For you it is absolutely useless. The best thing you can do now
is change your Minimum/Maximum swap file size to the amount which
shows as "Recomended" in the dialogue box. The permenant cache will
give you peak performance as Windows own conservative swap file
management is no longer needed.

 

[Daniel Prince]

You have already solved the problem RAM managers address: inadequate
RAM. For you it is absolutely useless. The best thing you can do now
is change your Minimum/Maximum swap file size to the amount which
shows as "Recomended" in the dialogue box. The permenant cache will
give you peak performance as Windows own conservative swap file
management is no longer needed.

The recommended size in 1510 megs. When I had 512 megs of ram the
recommended page file size was around 750 megs. I think Windows XP is
just blindly recommending 1.5 times the total ram. I really do not
think I need 1.5 gigs of page file.

 

[Jari Lehtonen]

Is the program on the Pricelessware site called Cacheman useful on
Windows XP Home? It supposedly improves memory and disk cache use.

I have a Barton 2500+ with a gig of ram. Right now I have quite a few
programs open and Statbar says that I have 702 megs of free ram. My
page file has grown from the start size of 40 megs to 53 megs.

Thank you in advance for all replies.

I have the experience that it stills helps a lot. It is of course
somewhat subjective, I have not made any measurements.
Jari

 

[Albert Simmer]

Is the program on the Pricelessware site called Cacheman useful on
Windows XP Home? It supposedly improves memory and disk cache use.

I have a Barton 2500+ with a gig of ram. Right now I have quite a few
programs open and Statbar says that I have 702 megs of free ram. My
page file has grown from the start size of 40 megs to 53 megs.

I use a program called FreeRam XP Pro. Seems to work ok for me.