Testing, testing...

[alexpgp]

One more time, maestro, from the top (I don't give up easily...:^).

Okay, I've got MemTurbo II running (shareware, 30-day trial) and it tells me that, with Webcam32 and AIM running, I've got 28M of free physical RAM and 396M of free paging file. Supposedly, if the free memory drops below 20M, the software will kick in and do something marvelous to recover and defragment RAM.

Cheers...

Comments

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

I bought MemTurbo, but I've finally stopped using it. I found that it's more effective to just have more memory. It seems to be a good program, but "defragmenting" ram is just silly, since there's no physical access considerations involved.

It's a good way of monitoring memory useage, but I now use TClockEx (http://users.iafrica.com/d/da/dalen/), which is a neat and very configurable Windows taskbar clock replacement that also has some memory and cpu usage monitoring bars. It's one of the few programs I use that I would absolutely have to have on any computer I run ;)

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Defragmenting RAM can be crucial, because if you need to allocate a piece of memory that's bigger than any available segment...boom.

I just want to see if Webcam32 does anything funny. I had the built-in Windows monitors in place yesterday, and they betrayed nothing unusual, and the system rebooted anyway.

Cheers...

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

Even if your ram isn't defragged, the request for memory just gets swapped to disk, doesn't it? In any case, I never noticed any performance or stability differences between running MemTurbo (which I did for a long time) and not running it (and having 512m of memory).