W7 and system cache. Horrible eats up your ram :(

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tweakboy

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So I did research and looks like its a bug for W7 and 2008 server,

Microsoft released a dynamic cache with instructions to copy to system32 and run some commands in command prompt. I have the service started,

But when I go to registry , my

and folllow instructions it dont work either. Soo I dont think you guys should care about this dynamic cache fix by microsoft.


Now is there a real way a way that works to decrease the cache size or have max be 1000MB not steal 4GB for system cache... your available free RAM just goes down and down. I hate this.


maxsystemcachesizembytes

is the string. if you type dynamic cache microsoft fix download in google you should find it

But now what to do I tried CacheMan and that doesn't do it. I think cuz there was no option to set the cache size..

Is there a app or a reg hack so I can have my system cache to 1GB and the rest available to ram.

Or can someone teach me how to use cache man and limit the cache size to 1GB and under, never more then that,,,,,, hmmm

The old cacheman had the option to change cache size long time ago,, weird I dont see it in app hmmm ?

I've had enough of this nonsense for 1 day.
-ViRGE
 
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tweakboy

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LOL nice one liesure suit Larry lolol. No but seriously the available RAM will go down and then all hell breaks lose. Ive read about this.. Microsoft released Dynamic Cache thingie on their site... I tried it importtaed reg keys and command line started service but. Microsoft released dyncache as a fix for this W7 bug from hell.

How about cacheman, I tried it recently and that doesnt do nothing as far as give me option to set the maximimum cache size to 1GB ,, not freak 4GB ,,, This is important for my DAW ...... sighs
 
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postmortemIA said:
it is not useful to load into RAM something you will never use. Especially if you are on battery.

Op, disable superfetch service and be done with it.
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Yes it is useful. For every 1 thing you never use, there are 10 that you will use. As for battery life LOL. you SAVE battery life by loading up ram and keeping programs in memory. You use far more power loading ram then it would take to keep loading and reloading ram. (Not only that, but ram take VERY little power change). In contrast, accessing a hard drive takes quite a lot of power.

To argue superfetch is hard on your battery is crazy.

As others have said "unused RAM is wasted RAM" Every OS under the sun is going to a superfetch like model because it is a good idea.
 
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...0a-5efe-43c8-b9c3-5d0ecb2f39af&displaylang=en

Here is Dynamic Cache, Ive tried the reg settings it puts in to no avail. Someone if you can get this to work pass it on please..and read the readme text. Thanks

You have to copy two files to win/system32 then run 2 commands from the command prompt, then import reg file. Youll see instructions when you get it. Thanks and God Bless
 
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Cogman said:
Yes it is useful. For every 1 thing you never use, there are 10 that you will use. As for battery life LOL. you SAVE battery life by loading up ram and keeping programs in memory. You use far more power loading ram then it would take to keep loading and reloading ram. (Not only that, but ram take VERY little power change). In contrast, accessing a hard drive takes quite a lot of power.
To argue superfetch is hard on your battery is crazy.

As others have said "unused RAM is wasted RAM" Every OS under the sun is going to a superfetch like model because it is a good idea.
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In case you missed superfetch loads (reads) data and programs from hard drive and loads it into the RAM. Benefit of it is strictly that what you'll try to read form hard drive will be already loaded for you. Thus if it loads 4GB of data into RAM from hard drive, it is same thing as you have opened these by yourself, from hard drive. There battery life has to suffer.
 
Cogman

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postmortemIA said:
In case you missed superfetch loads (reads) data and programs from hard drive and loads it into the RAM. Benefit of it is strictly that what you'll try to read form hard drive will be already loaded for you. Thus if it loads 4GB of data into RAM from hard drive, it is same thing as you have opened these by yourself, from hard drive. There battery life has to suffer.
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And you've missed the point of loading and superfetch. Sporadically getting programs takes much more energy then loading one large chunk of memory (superfetch). You don't have to deal with spinning up the hard drive each time you want to get a program or piece of data. The savings comes mainly from reducing the number of times the HD has to be started and stopped. (Think of it like your car, you get the best gas millage going a constant speed. However, the more you have to stop and start up again, the worse the gas millage you get).

Couple that with the fact that most people will usually open and close a program more then once in a normal usage cycle, and you are already seeing some big savings. With superfetch disabled, every time you start the program anew, you have to go back to the hard drive to get the data to launch the application.

Perhaps you could argue that it is more energy efficient for an SSD drive, however, SSDs already consume so little energy that it is still moot.
 
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tweakboy said:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...0a-5efe-43c8-b9c3-5d0ecb2f39af&displaylang=en

Here is Dynamic Cache, Ive tried the reg settings it puts in to no avail. Someone if you can get this to work pass it on please..and read the readme text. Thanks

You have to copy two files to win/system32 then run 2 commands from the command prompt, then import reg file. Youll see instructions when you get it. Thanks and God Bless
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If you would have taken the time to read the page you linked to, Windows 7 is not supported.

System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 editions; Windows Server 2003 x64 editions; Windows Server 2008 Datacenter; Windows Server 2008 Enterprise; Windows Server 2008 Standard; Windows Vista 64-bit Editions Service Pack 1; Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition; Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition
Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista
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Ya guys this is not for W7 it doesnt have the bug of stealing all your ram and your left with 0RAM and crash.

its only for xp and vista ,, Sorry I didn't note that.
 
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