Standby Memory??

[Virgorising]

Hi.

Exactly what is "standby memory"? Why isn't all memory not in use standing by?

Thank you.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Standby is cached memory that can be discarded.

 

[Cerb]

To elaborate, Windows does its best to keep you from having much free memory. Over time, you should reach a point where very little of it is free. Ideally, you should have as little free as possible, without having so little free that every allocation or commit involves cache searches or evictions.

Cached memory is in use, but most of it can be discarded, and committed to an application that needs more memory. Some of it is dirty, and needs to be checked out, and changes written, so that memory won't be given to applications quite so readily.

 

[Virgorising]

To elaborate, Windows does its best to keep you from having much free memory. Over time, you should reach a point where very little of it is free. Ideally, you should have as little free as possible, without having so little free that every allocation or commit involves cache searches or evictions.

Cached memory is in use, but most of it can be discarded, and committed to an application that needs more memory. Some of it is dirty, and needs to be checked out, and changes written, so that memory won't be given to applications quite so readily.

Thanks for this in depth info! :biggrin::thumbsup:

I did, earlier, find this:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1280405/standby-and-free-memory

I guess we can't configure this and just have to leave it up to Windows. Windows is FAR more complex than I knew when I just took it for granted, and so, I am growing more respect for it.() It strikes me that the average computer user, unlike most people in THIS COMMUNITY, never even thinks about any of this.

At least I understand it more now. Its apparent goal to conserve, does sound does sound pragmatic, and so, efficient. Not unlike core parking....tho I turned that off. :\:whiste:

 

[Virgorising]

Standby is cached memory that can be discarded.

Thanks.

 

[Cerb]

Its apparent goal to conserve

Also to speed up reads of commonly-accessed files. SSDs are still a couple thousand to several tens of thousands, of times slower than RAM.

 

[Virgorising]

Also to speed up reads of commonly-accessed files. SSDs are still a couple thousand to several tens of thousands, of times slower than RAM.

Interesting!

And, re SSDs vs RAM....AMAZING.