On Thu, 8 May 2008 16:13:00 -0700, WylieCoyote
<WylieCoyote@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> I have recently installed Vista Home Premium onto my P Dual 3Ghz PC. I have
> 3GB of RAM installed and was surprised to notice in Task Manager that 948GB
> in use, 2349GB cached and no free RAM.
>
> Whilst installing some software, I again checked Task Manager and noted that
> I had 10-20MB free whilst the install was happening. When it finished, it was
> dropped back to around about the same level but there was no free RAM, it was
> all cached again.
>
> Should all my free RAM be cached? Is the caching causing my machine to slow
> down (installing software does seem to be taking longer)? Can I stop Vista
> from doing this? Should I be worried about this?
>
> Apologies if I'm being a complete dunce on this but I am a little concerned.
Wanting to minimize the amount of memory Windows uses is a
counterproductive desire. Windows is designed to use all, or most, of
your memory, all the time, and that's good not bad. Free memory is
wasted memory. You paid for it all and shouldn't want to see any of it
wasted.
Windows works hard to find a use for all the memory you have all the
time. For example if your apps don't need some of it, it will use that
part for caching, then give it back when your apps later need it. In
this way Windows keeps all your memory working for you all the time.
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>
> Thanks
> --
> Andy Wylie
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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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