Easy Question: command to flush a system's RAM?

[Overkiller]

Hey all,

i had a quick question regarding the command that can be typed @ the command prompt in WinXP where the RAM is cleared.

Thanks!

 

[n0cmonkey]

reboot

 

[Need4Speed]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
reboot

hmmm..says invalid command when i type that

ps:...thats sarcasm for those of you that can't process it correctly

 

[Overkiller]

outside of rebooting. This has to do when handling GB's of video encoding and the ram needs to be flushed so explorer.exe doesn't crash and restart.

anyone?

 

[BT7990]

Included in the XP Resource Kit Tools is ClearMem.exe.

What it does

Where to get it

I have not used it, but it looks like it may do what you need it to do.

 

[Overkiller]

thank you, i will definitely check it out!

 

[Nothinman]

outside of rebooting. This has to do when handling GB's of video encoding and the ram needs to be flushed so explorer.exe doesn't crash and restart.

Memory doesn't need to be flushed, especially to stop explorer from crashing. If explorer is crashing it's from something else, the filesystem cache holding the video will be discarded (or sync'd to disk if they're dirty) when necessary. If explorer is crashing it's from something else, if it only happens after you do something intense like video editing I would suspect bad memory or over heating.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

outside of rebooting. This has to do when handling GB's of video encoding and the ram needs to be flushed so explorer.exe doesn't crash and restart.

Memory doesn't need to be flushed, especially to stop explorer from crashing. If explorer is crashing it's from something else, the filesystem cache holding the video will be discarded (or sync'd to disk if they're dirty) when necessary. If explorer is crashing it's from something else, if it only happens after you do something intense like video editing I would suspect bad memory or over heating.

I was thinking memory leak.

 

[Nothinman]

I was thinking memory leak.

It's remotely possible, but not something that 'flushing RAM' would fix.

 

[oldman420]

i run prime 95 torture test for about 1 min and then quit that works great