memory management software

[Mookow]

I used to run a memory managing app, the name of which escapes me. However, it would allow you to recover memory lost due to memory leaks, clear out your page file (I just love it when windows decides that, though I have nothing open, and nothing running in the system tray, there is 100MB of stuff sitting in virtual memory and I have 20MB RAM unallocated). Anyone have suggestions on what to use? Running Win 9x at the moment.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Memory managers made a difference in Win 3.1, but I haven't seen any reviews of any that made any real difference from Win95-on. Having "wasted" space in your swap file doesn't hurt performance and only matters if you are running very short of diskspace.

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Memory managers made a difference in Win 3.1, but I haven't seen any reviews of any that made any real difference from Win95-on. Having "wasted" space in your swap file doesn't hurt performance and only matters if you are running very short of diskspace.

Well, right now I have 72MB sitting in my swap file, have 36 MB RAM free (out of 512). All that is currently running is system monitor, the IE window being used to post this, systray, and explorer. The problem is that Windows has loaded things into the swap file that doesnt need to be there and still gets used. I'm looking for a program that will allow me to force windows into emptying the swap file into physical memory. I've used it before, it does a good job in giving the computer the "feel" of being freshly rebooted without actually rebooting.

 

[Nothinman]

3rd party memory management software is bad. At the very best it'll do nothing but use up memory that could be used by other things, at the worst it'll trash your system, avoid it at all costs.

If you're still using Win9X, stop, get an OS with decent memory management. You should also avoid Win9X at all costs.

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
3rd party memory management software is bad. At the very best it'll do nothing but use up memory that could be used by other things, at the worst it'll trash your system, avoid it at all costs.

If you're still using Win9X, stop, get an OS with decent memory management. You should also avoid Win9X at all costs.

Well, I would avoid 9x, but right now I'm screwed into staying with it. And its not like the software I used prior to this was contantly running... I'd run it, do what I wanted, and exit