Task manger shows lots of cached ram on server 08

[amddude]

I've disabled superfetch both in the registry and disabled the service. However, task manager still shows all my free ram going to cache. Any idea why this is happening?

task manager

No IIS or AD and windows system resource manager is not installed.

 

[Nothinman]

Because that's how it's supposed to work. Superfetch is just a service that preloads the filesystem cache, disabling it won't disable the cache itself as that would be incredibly stupid.

 

[XZeroII]

Why are you concerned about this? It makes your computer faster.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: amddude
I've disabled superfetch both in the registry and disabled the service. However, task manager still shows all my free ram going to cache. Any idea why this is happening?

task manager

No IIS or AD and windows system resource manager is not installed.

File system cache, its normal. the system will use as much memory as is it can based on IO patterns. But the memory will be available for 'regular' use (down to the cache minimum size) if needed.

 

[amddude]

I had heard that when using superfetch and one or two large memory usage apps it is kinda a waste. If this is ordinary cache then I'm ok. Thanks for the advice.