Ram Defragmenters

[Merlyn3D]

Do they?

 

[Frew]

never heard of them. *goes to google*

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Yes, and so does WiFi Spray.

- M4H

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Random Access Memory

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Merlyn3D
Do they?

Hmmm, Random Access Memory and the concept of defragmenting doesn't make sense to me.

 

[FoBoT]

do you change the air in your tires often?

 

[Zanix]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Merlyn3D
Do they?

Hmmm, Random Access Memory and the concept of defragmenting doesn't make sense to me.

Hard disks aren't sequential though, are they?

 

[KLin]

RAM defragmenters work about as well as this.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Discussed every so often in the proper forum (Software).

No.

 

[ElFenix]

random access merely means that the data doesn't have to be sequentially accessed (or in any other particular order). hard drives are also RAM, technically.

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
do you change the air in your tires often?

lol

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Yeah, I'll sell you some for $100 each. PM me.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
random access merely means that the data doesn't have to be sequentially accessed (or in any other particular order). hard drives are also RAM, technically.

But the way system memory is structured, it doesn't matter WHERE in memory you're reading from, it all takes [almost, there is the inperceptible sub-nanosecond delay due to datapath length] exactly the same amount of time. Hard drives are not as such.

 

[EMPshockwave82]

i've heard of ram dumpers...

clean out your ram of all files that havent been used in the past ____ minutes

it seemed to work, however took system performance to run so it made it kinda pointless

 

[wischeez]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
do you change the air in your tires often?

Only in the Spring and the Fall

 

[Toastedlightly]

Do you change your oi.... wait. FSCK!

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: EMPshockwave82
i've heard of ram dumpers...

clean out your ram of all files that havent been used in the past ____ minutes

it seemed to work, however took system performance to run so it made it kinda pointless

Except Windows pages out / in RAM to the swapfile as needed. If something isn't in use it will be migrated to disk as soon as Windows needs the RAM for active programs.

The virtual memory system in Windows 3.1 was very primitive and near the end of its life CPUs were fast enough to make a RAM optimizer worthwhile.

I can't recall seeing credible benchmarks for even Windows 9x showing significant improvement in real-world use, and the memory manager in NT/XP is much better. A software company supplied chart of some special case they've crafted is worthless.

 

[BannedTroll]

FreeramXP seems to help on my Dell 2400 with 256Mb of ram.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: BannedTroll
FreeramXP seems to help on my Dell 2400 with 256Mb of ram.

Placebo effect?

 

[BannedTroll]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

Originally posted by: BannedTroll
FreeramXP seems to help on my Dell 2400 with 256Mb of ram.

Placebo effect?

I doubt it. What would you suggest as a test?