ram management freeware

[teddyli]

hi,
may i ask is there any good freeware which could help to manage my pc's ram
usage?
i am using ramidle but do not like it.
thanks,
teddy.

 

[REMbranded]

"teddyli" <[email protected]> wrote:

may i ask is there any good freeware which could help to manage my pc's ram
usage?
i am using ramidle but do not like it.

RamIdle is what I've used for quite some time now and is what I would
recommend. I tried two others (don't even recall the names) and
RamIdle stood above them. This was maybe two years or so ago.

Is it the performance you don't like? Or the way that you make various
settings? How much ram do you have and what is your processor speed?

If you check the "Disable the CPU Usage Detection" box you might see
an improvement in performance. It takes a bunch of cycle time to run
this graph that is not normally visible anyway.

 

[jota]

Hi.

hi,
may i ask is there any good freeware which could help to manage my pc's ram
usage?
i am using ramidle but do not like it.
thanks,
teddy.

I have AnalogX MaxMem (www.analogx.com). Is free and simple. Hope you like
it.
Greetings from Spain.

 

[teddyli]

oh........yes, i don't know i can disable the cpu usage detection, now it
works fine
thanks REMBranded.
teddy.

"teddyli" <[email protected]> wrote:

may i ask is there any good freeware which could help to manage my pc's ram
usage?
i am using ramidle but do not like it.

RamIdle is what I've used for quite some time now and is what I would
recommend. I tried two others (don't even recall the names) and
RamIdle stood above them. This was maybe two years or so ago.

Is it the performance you don't like? Or the way that you make various
settings? How much ram do you have and what is your processor speed?

If you check the "Disable the CPU Usage Detection" box you might see
an improvement in performance. It takes a bunch of cycle time to run
this graph that is not normally visible anyway.

 

[teddyli]

got it,
thanks.
teddy.

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Hi.

hi,
may i ask is there any good freeware which could help to manage my pc's ram
usage?
i am using ramidle but do not like it.
thanks,
teddy.

I have AnalogX MaxMem (www.analogx.com). Is free and simple. Hope you like
it.
Greetings from Spain.

 

[kalynuik1]

RamIdle is what I've used for quite some time now and is what I would
recommend. I tried two others (don't even recall the names) and
RamIdle stood above them. This was maybe two years or so ago.

Is it the performance you don't like? Or the way that you make various
settings? How much ram do you have and what is your processor speed?

If you check the "Disable the CPU Usage Detection" box you might see
an improvement in performance. It takes a bunch of cycle time to run
this graph that is not normally visible anyway.

url:
http://www.tweaknow.com/ramidleLE.html

version 1.4 is this the most recent?

Kingtut1

 

[A]

hi,
may i ask is there any good freeware which could help to manage my
pc's ram usage?

There is a fairly convincing line of argument that says these products do
not work. See:
http://www.techweb.com/winmag/columns/explorer/2000/12.htm

 

[Jess]

I use RAMpage. It uses very little memory (480kb).

 

[Steven Burn]

I use RAMpage. It uses very little memory (480kb).

<snip>

Does it buggery. It might take the ram usage down but as soon as you try and
use something, it soon takes it straight back up again (I tried it on 3
different PC's with the same results).

--

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

Disclaimer:
I know I'm probably wrong, I just like taking part ;o)

 

[A man]

I use Rampage and have rarely had a crash (on Win9x, 2000, XP) since
using it.

 

[Keenan P.]

news:[email protected]:

There is a fairly convincing line of argument that says these products do
not work. See:
http://www.techweb.com/winmag/columns/explorer/2000/12.htm

I tend to agree, but I do run RamIdle in my systray. I recently had a
bad stick of ram and this showed up in RamIdle by the amount of ram
available to me.
Best,
POKO

 

[Maureen Goldman]

I've been using FreeRam XP Pro 140.exe for a couple of months, works
fine. Only proviso is that there is default setting to automatically
check for updates which needs to be changed (was bringing my system
out of standby). As per the title, it's for WindowsXP. I have it
configured to free memory each time Windows is restarted, as well as
automatically when things fall below a certain level.

Contact information from the readme: http://www.yourwaresolutions.com

 

[NoNaMe]

Have just downloaded RamBooster Version 1.6 from >
http://www.sci.fi/~borg/rambooster/index.htm havent tried it yet !

Kind regards From WillofAustralia

 

[Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply]

Have just downloaded RamBooster Version 1.6 from >
http://www.sci.fi/~borg/rambooster/index.htm havent tried it yet !

Be careful -- it made my system crash *more* often.

 

[kcajuk69]

hi,
may i ask is there any good freeware which could help to manage my pc's ram
usage?
i am using ramidle but do not like it.
thanks,
teddy.

If you ever get tired of what yu are using, this freeware works better
than anything else I have used. I have tried probably 15 software and
freeware programs. I use Windows ME and this keeps thee RAM where I
want it. ME has a tremendous memory leak and you can't tell it when
you play videos and audio
MP3, etc. with this at all. I have it set for 225 Mbs and it goes down
a little and always automatically brings it back to where I want. It
has a variety of the normal RAM settings.

http://www.yourwaresolutions.com/

 

[REMbranded]

version 1.4 is this the most recent?
RamIdle:

Kingtut1

I'm using v4.6, the last freeware version.

http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/ramidlnt.html

 

[REMbranded]

There is a fairly convincing line of argument that says these products do
not work. See:
http://www.techweb.com/winmag/columns/explorer/2000/12.htm

I can tell that RamIdle is running and when it is not. There is a
stark difference. It handles memory management in a way that is
superior to Windows.

A few contentions:

"But when you load more apps and data than your RAM can hold, Windows
makes judgments about what’s important and what’s not -- and what’s
likely to be needed again soon, and what’s not. Windows then writes
some of the less-vital contents of RAM to disk in the virtual memory
area. When something’s needed from the virtual memory area, Windows
loads it back into RAM, making room (if need be) by swapping something
else out of RAM onto the disk. It works pretty well, but (of course)
isn’t perfect. That’s where “memory optimizers” come in."

Exactly! Windows is a terrible judge as to what gets swapped out and
when. This is one reason to use one.

"Memory optimizers operate on your pool of general memory. They have
nothing whatsoever to do with the fixed-size User and GDI memory areas
that are the real problem with resource memory leaks."

"After an application crashes, for example, it’s possible for some
general memory to be “orphaned” or marked as still in use, when it
actually is not. And some apps do leak small amounts of general memory
-- that is, they don’t properly clean up after themselves. In these
cases, and in instances where Win98 can’t recover the leaked general
memory on its own, running a memory optimizer may be able to recover
the leaked memory."

A memory leak occurs when the program author dynamically allocates
memory in a program and fails to release it. The dynamic allocation is
in main memory and it can be recovered. Another reason to use one.

"Now let’s look at loading an app from defragged RAM, bearing in mind
the speed difference between RAM and hard drives: If defragmented RAM
lets you avoid, say, 100 memory-access operations at 60ns each, you’ve
saved 6000ns, or -- gosh! -- a whole six millionths of a second. To
say that is too small to notice is beyond understatement. It's so
small, it's irrelevant."

Some applicatons use data structures or writes that require x bytes of
contiguous memory cells. This is why defragging is a good thing to do,
not the "access time" as stated by the author above. When you start an
app that utilizes one of these structures or methods there is
contiguous space and everything flows right into memory, without the
pause for disk swapping that would occur without the memory utility.

I realize Fred has a huge following. I don't agree with his article at
all though.

 

[tfog]

hi,
may i ask is there any good freeware which could help to manage my
pc's ram usage?
i am using ramidle but do not like it.
thanks,
teddy.

Try Cacheman V 5.11 (avoids annoying splash screen on lastest version).

 

[dszady]

Trying to get a word in edge-wise "tfog" wrote in

Try Cacheman V 5.11 (avoids annoying splash screen on lastest version).

Seconded. Excellent program.