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I can't find similar question so talking about it so I would like to create one. It is a bit long so I bold what I want to ask actually.
Someone had noticed Windows 8 is taking too much memory for the Cached
, and the answer of the question is using some memory optimizers to gain back the cached ram.
However, the Cached
memory is increasing again from time to time, so I have to run the optimizer again, I wonder why Windows is playing this kind of cat and mouse mechanism, some article mentioned that memory optimizers is no needed. I doubt if this theory is applied to some low end device like win8 tablet with 2GB ram. For example, without memory optmizer, I see the memory usage of my PC is running up to 96% and start lagging, after clicking the optimize button, the memory usage is dropped dramatically and it is not lagging.
I have done such test, below screenshot is before optimizing:
After optimizing: (Nothing special over the mouseover description, just a mistake when screen capturing)
Is memory optmizer really needed for Windows8 (or later) based modern PC? (including high end and low end)
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run RAMMap when you have the high memory usage and post pictures: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ff700229.aspx. What you did was crap, you wrote data to the pagefile and generated a high DiskIO. You should fix the real memory leak instead ;)
– magicandre1981 – 2015-06-26T16:58:12.5971Cache is good and you want as much of it as possible so Windows is designed to use as much of it as possible. Trying to reduce it is bad. – qasdfdsaq – 2015-07-02T14:59:42.743
RAMMap is a great tool, the proper way to find "where all my ram go" and one can rest assure that Windows put all these RAM to good use. Caching is good, but 100% good? I'm not sure, Windows 8 is much less aggressively in caching files comparing to Windows 7. – Chris.C – 2015-07-03T19:17:30.027