+allan MVC Posted March 8, 2008 MVC Share Posted March 8, 2008 You guys are driving me crazy...I don't know what do do now. Do anything you like - it simply won't make much of a difference - this whole thread is making a mountain out of a molehill. Try it both ways and whichever way you prefer is the right thing to do. Next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Disabling superfetch is pointless. Although if it really makes you "feel" better because you can see all the unused memory you want go for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Olive Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 WTF You Stalking me with this sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeeperOfThePizza Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 WTF You Stalking me Chill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Olive Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 (edited) Chill. i'm just saying because it's freaking creepy now i have change my IP Edited March 8, 2008 by Killa Aaron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+allan MVC Posted March 8, 2008 MVC Share Posted March 8, 2008 Your IP address is public knowledge for anyone who wants to go to even the slightest trouble to find out, as that little app in the signature above shows. Here: http://whatismyipaddress.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Olive Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Your IP address is public knowledge for anyone who wants to go to even the slightest trouble to find out, as that little app in the signature above shows. Here: http://whatismyipaddress.com/ but why go through the trouble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+allan MVC Posted March 8, 2008 MVC Share Posted March 8, 2008 (edited) EDIT: Disregard this post - problem resolved ;) Edited March 8, 2008 by allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 i'm just saying because it's freaking creepy now i have change my IP You're kidding right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doli Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 ^^ :laugh: (he really thinks we can see his IP) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Olive Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 You're kidding right? i'm just kidding i did my research. i had to give respect to allan the vet i had to fix my post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soldier1st Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 scorbing:if i were you i would set the services back to there defaults including superfetch,you got tons of memory,why put it to waste if you can put it to good use,things may not be fast fast fast but at least when you open a minimized app it wont lag to hell for a few like it did under xp,by disabling superfetch and readyboost your forcing vista to act similar to the way xp does things and vista was meant to overcome many of xp's short comings including the prefetching system and once you set all back teach superfetch your routines to give it a good idea how you use your system by running various apps you may or may not use or very little and go on your business and see how it handles,it may take 1-2 days but at least that should help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boeing 787 Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 People seem confused by how what Vista considers cached. It means the swap + Ram, it doesn't mean everything is loaded into Ram because some of those systems have the ram showing at 53%, so that cache is stored on your hard drive the same way it was in XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManMountain Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 As already said, simply put, superfetch preloads files from the hard disk into main memory in anticipation of a users needs. To do this, superfetch monitors your usage pattern. So if you are repeating the process of first loading application a, then application b and lastly application c, apon rebooting your PC, superfetch will cache / preload these commonly used programs to reduce their loading times by populating them into main memory. As far as I'm aware, the superfetch facility does not take priority over an applications direct memory request as this would swap this data into the page file, defeating the purpose of superfetch. Superfetch, for me, makes good, efficient use of what resources are available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soldier1st Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 superfetch will be improved over time,hopefuly with sp2 superfetch will be able to load more apps and keep them there and if it saw you open an app then there would be a high chance it would be put into main memory and stay there and if parts of it got swapped then after the app that did that closed then the whole app would be put back in but of course you would need like 3GB+memory for this to work,the more you have the more stays in memory but of course if you didnt launch an app in 7 days it would remove it and make room for your other apps and eventualy superfetch should allow you to change some of it's functionality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afterlife Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 killa aaron how did you change the taskmanager colours??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UAC Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 hopefuly with sp2 superfetch will be able to load more apps and keep them there superfetch already does it. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boeing 787 Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 As already said, simply put, superfetch preloads files from the hard disk into main memory in anticipation of a users needs.To do this, superfetch monitors your usage pattern. So if you are repeating the process of first loading application a, then application b and lastly application c, apon rebooting your PC, superfetch will cache / preload these commonly used programs to reduce their loading times by populating them into main memory. As far as I'm aware, the superfetch facility does not take priority over an applications direct memory request as this would swap this data into the page file, defeating the purpose of superfetch. Superfetch, for me, makes good, efficient use of what resources are available. Your screenshot is a perfect example of what I am talking about. It says that only 50MB are free and that 6817MB are cached but only 23% of your ram is in use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorbing Posted March 9, 2008 Author Share Posted March 9, 2008 Your screenshot is a perfect example of what I am talking about. It says that only 50MB are free and that 6817MB are cached but only 23% of your ram is in use. Interesting...Didn't notice that before for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soldier1st Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 superfetch already does it. :D i know that but eventualy it should have more options like maybe keeping certain apps always in memory n stuff like that but you never know what the future holds for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mad_onion Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 for me vista uses 30% of memory doing nothing. but why do i care? i have 4 GBs of ram so if it's using 1.25GBs it doesn't really matter surely. there's no need to disable services at least from a memory point of view. vista frees up memory if it needs to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+allan MVC Posted March 9, 2008 MVC Share Posted March 9, 2008 for me vista uses 30% of memory doing nothing. but why do i care? i have 4 GBs of ram so if it's using 1.25GBs it doesn't really matter surely. there's no need to disable services at least from a memory point of view. vista frees up memory if it needs to. What most of you don't seem to understand is that you WANT the OS to use as much memory as possible. Free ram is wasted ram. An efficient OS will use all available memory at all times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorbing Posted March 9, 2008 Author Share Posted March 9, 2008 What most of you don't seem to understand is that you WANT the OS to use as much memory as possible. Free ram is wasted ram. An efficient OS will use all available memory at all times. So what you are saying is that if Vista has all my RAM busy, if I decide to play Halo it will release the RAM so that I can run the game? I won't have any problems running Halo and play online? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxdude Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 So what you are saying is that if Vista has all my RAM busy, if I decide to play Halo it will release the RAM so that I can run the game? I won't have any problems running Halo and play online? Yes, that's the idea... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+allan MVC Posted March 9, 2008 MVC Share Posted March 9, 2008 So what you are saying is that if Vista has all my RAM busy, if I decide to play Halo it will release the RAM so that I can run the game? I won't have any problems running Halo and play online? Of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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