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Ram Defragmenters

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.
 
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.
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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.
 
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
 
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
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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.
 
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