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Old 12-20-2008   #1 (permalink)
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How to increase the File System Caching Memory?

I have 6GB of ram, and Vista hardly utilize most of it. So I would like to increase the file system cache to delay consecutive disk writes to extend hdd life.

From the software "Vista Manager", I see the option to set the exact size for file system cache. As this software seems very buggy, so I'm would like to do that manually.

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Old 12-20-2008   #2 (permalink)
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Re: How to increase the File System Caching Memory?

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by totalz View Post
I have 6GB of ram, and Vista hardly utilize most of it. So I would like to increase the file system cache to delay consecutive disk writes to extend hdd life.

From the software "Vista Manager", I see the option to set the exact size for file system cache. As this software seems very buggy, so I'm would like to do that manually.
This is the only method I'm aware of:

at an admin command prompt enter:

fsutil behavior set memoryusage 2
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Old 12-20-2008   #3 (permalink)
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Re: How to increase the File System Caching Memory?

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by MilesAhead View Post
Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by totalz View Post
I have 6GB of ram, and Vista hardly utilize most of it. So I would like to increase the file system cache to delay consecutive disk writes to extend hdd life.

From the software "Vista Manager", I see the option to set the exact size for file system cache. As this software seems very buggy, so I'm would like to do that manually.
This is the only method I'm aware of:

at an admin command prompt enter:

fsutil behavior set memoryusage 2
Oh, already knew this one, and it is only for NTFSMemUsage. I want one for the whole file system.

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Old 12-21-2008   #4 (permalink)
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Re: How to increase the File System Caching Memory?

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by totalz View Post
Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by MilesAhead View Post
Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by totalz View Post
I have 6GB of ram, and Vista hardly utilize most of it. So I would like to increase the file system cache to delay consecutive disk writes to extend hdd life.

From the software "Vista Manager", I see the option to set the exact size for file system cache. As this software seems very buggy, so I'm would like to do that manually.
This is the only method I'm aware of:

at an admin command prompt enter:

fsutil behavior set memoryusage 2
Oh, already knew this one, and it is only for NTFSMemUsage. I want one for the whole file system.
Then you'll probably have to buy a disk caching software. Try google.
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Old 12-24-2008   #5 (permalink)
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Re: How to increase the File System Caching Memory?

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by totalz View Post
Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by MilesAhead View Post
Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by totalz View Post
I have 6GB of ram, and Vista hardly utilize most of it. So I would like to increase the file system cache to delay consecutive disk writes to extend hdd life.

From the software "Vista Manager", I see the option to set the exact size for file system cache. As this software seems very buggy, so I'm would like to do that manually.
This is the only method I'm aware of:

at an admin command prompt enter:

fsutil behavior set memoryusage 2
Oh, already knew this one, and it is only for NTFSMemUsage. I want one for the whole file system.
I did run across this other registry setting. On my XP machine with only 1 GB ram it didn't help but on my Vista machine with 2 GB it seemed to keep the Minimum Benchmark in HDTune from dropping down to single digits as it usually does. So
you can try it out. How to increase the cache
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