ElAguila Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 How does the memory cache work in vista and can it be configured? The reason I am asking is this. I was looking on the performance tab of the task manager. For the physical memory it says: Total 2045, Cached 1199, Free 40. Is it bad to only have 40MB free? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAbReAkA Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 no.. that means that vista is utilizing a lot of memory.. same thing happens here:when i start it up i have a gig of free memory.. it starts reading from the hard drive and in a matter of several minutes it takes all the space and the hard drive becomes quiet... that's superfetch.. it caches most of the s*** that u'll probably need later (which makes application start up times a lot shorter..).. vista itself needs around 550mb.. instead of leaving the other memory free, it takes advantage of all the available resources to improve performance.. just like in games - u cant make a strong army if u're not utilizing all your resources (gold, wood, etc.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 the Cache is called SuperFetch and this is a windowsservice. You can disable it through services.msc, but this will decrease the performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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