memory management progs any good
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Third party memory management applications really haven't been a requirement since WIndows 95.
Those of us who were around PC's in the "good old days" remember all the fun and games we had with EMS, XMS and base RAM.
In those days I found QEMM was an absolute must and allowed me to get a boot configuration with plenty of base, EMS & XMS memory - alas some games just didn't like it.
Once Win95 was released and your RAM was simply treated as a block of RAM - no more split up between base and extended, just a block everything just worked.
Since Win95 I've always let the OS manage my memory and it has always done a very good job of doing so.
Sure I've seen all these people posting about creating static swap files (like we had to in the Win/DOS days) and installing memory management programs etc.
I'm yet to see any of them do a better job that the OS.
Those of us who were around PC's in the "good old days" remember all the fun and games we had with EMS, XMS and base RAM.
In those days I found QEMM was an absolute must and allowed me to get a boot configuration with plenty of base, EMS & XMS memory - alas some games just didn't like it.
Once Win95 was released and your RAM was simply treated as a block of RAM - no more split up between base and extended, just a block everything just worked.
Since Win95 I've always let the OS manage my memory and it has always done a very good job of doing so.
Sure I've seen all these people posting about creating static swap files (like we had to in the Win/DOS days) and installing memory management programs etc.
I'm yet to see any of them do a better job that the OS.
You can't optimise what is already optimised.
These "free up memory! for free, today! download our free trial today!" programs are all the same load of rubbish. They do nothing but show some graphs of memory usage. Then they force the system to enter a simulated low memory mode (which was only intended to be used by developers to test their software) which forces the kernel's memory manager to go around each thread and pages out a load of their working set to the page file. This seriously hurts and degrades performance of your system.
These "free up memory! for free, today! download our free trial today!" programs are all the same load of rubbish. They do nothing but show some graphs of memory usage. Then they force the system to enter a simulated low memory mode (which was only intended to be used by developers to test their software) which forces the kernel's memory manager to go around each thread and pages out a load of their working set to the page file. This seriously hurts and degrades performance of your system.
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