Task manager memory question after disabling superfetch. (Windows 7)

Alfie · 3 May 2010 at 20:07

I have disabled Superfetch as I am using an SSD, and now task manager is reporting memory usage differently. Could you let me know if it looks normal? I'm slightly confused by the 0 mb of free memory!

Thanks in advance.

kitch9 · 4 May 2010 at 07:43

Don't worry about it, your system is physically using 1.38GB in that pic with the rest allocated as a cache for system resources.....

The cache is freed up as soon as an app needs it.

Alfie · 4 May 2010 at 13:18

Thanks.

NathanE · 4 May 2010 at 13:24

Alfie said:
I have disabled Superfetch as I am using an SSD

Who told you to do that?

It's a bad idea. These god damn people that spread FUD like this need shooting.

DeeJayCee · 8 May 2010 at 18:10

An interesting read on all things SSD tweaking related

http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/win...-ultimate-solid-state-drive-speed-tweaks.html

FoxEye · 8 May 2010 at 19:59

Eh, isn't superfetch read only? Meaning nothing is written to the disk?

SSDs have unlimited reads, unless it breaks

bifday2k · 8 May 2010 at 20:04

In that link they say leave superfetch alone so kinda contradicts itself abit.

I personally let windows 7 sort itself out, as its optimized for SSD's

DeeJayCee · 9 May 2010 at 01:03

I disable superfetch on my HDD and plan to on my SSD, mainly because it peeves me off!

NathanE · 9 May 2010 at 10:10

DeeJayCee said:
An interesting read on all things SSD tweaking related

http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/win...-ultimate-solid-state-drive-speed-tweaks.html

Seriously. Stop reading such crap articles!

A few choice quotes from that article, which are just utterly hilarious:

"Disable Write Caching: There is no cache on the SSD, so there are no benefits to write caching"

"Configure Superfetch: Frees up RAM by not preloading program files."

"Rather than disable SuperFetch altogether, a better way would be to set it to cache boot files only"

Jesus H Christ!!! :eek:

How can the people that write these "tweak guides" be so clueless?

NathanE · 9 May 2010 at 10:16

FoxEye said:
Eh, isn't superfetch read only? Meaning nothing is written to the disk?

SSDs have unlimited reads, unless it breaks

Correct.

And just to make clear, a Superfetch that only pulls in boot files is not Superfetch anymore. Because the Superfetch background service only starts after the boot has finished...