Tips on lowering RAM usage? - Page 7  

No, it's not in context. RAM sitting idle is opportunity for cache lost.

The OS knows which memory is use and which memory can be freed. When a process comes and requires memory, the OS will immediately start either moving the cache data to paging or dropping the data.


i.e. The OS caches Photoshop because you use it often. Suddenly, it identifies a process that is starting to use more and more RAM. The OS will just start dropping the Photoshop files it had cache. The difference to the end-user is negligible.

How is it uninformed if we actually understand how memory works and can program a similar program?

This program is NOT a memory inspection program.... you don't even understand how it works. Do you have any idea how hard it is to write a 3rd memory inspection program? Seriously. It is VERY hard because the OS protects 3rd party applications from doing so! The OS randomizes the memory address space to prevent applications from taking a memory dump and decrypting data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_protection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomization


To read data from memory, you basically have to use different hacking techniques. Once the memory is read.... you have to decode and analyze it. This is not easy stuff. I forgot the name of a Java attack technique where you fill memory up and force Java to write to addresses that you want...

It is using whitelists/blacklists... It knows what is running by a process listing. This is not memory inspection.

Print Spooler and most services would have been moved to paging anyways if you started to run out of memory. They also have lower priority than a foreground task so if you were CPU-bound.


The Java updater does not run that often.... it just checks for Java updates occasionally which is less than 1Kb of data. Also, Java updates themselves are not that large (500-2000Kb) once a few weeks.


MS developers are more skilled and have been at it for 30+ years..... The memory manager would free up RAM if it detected an application requiring more RAM anyways. All you did was kill some processes.... and wasting more RAM by not using it.
Edited by DuckieHo - 8/2/12 at 12:35pm

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Let's keep it civil and clean here fellas

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I still see a reply box. O_o