How to use the most of your ram..

I remember someone posted the procedure on how to use the most of your ram, because when I go on task manager, under performance, i have 2 gb of ram, but it never uses all 2gbs of it, where do i optimize my ram again?

 

Open up 200 pages of internet explorer and watch your ram get used up real fast.

But why are you so worried about using ram? Most people usually want to free up as much ram as possible, so that they can put that to use when needed.

Think about this: You eat up until you're full. It's pointless to eat more and more and more because you don't want to leave food uneaten. You leave that food for later when you will become hungry again, you don't just eat the whole fridge even tho you are full.

The same goes for memory. If your computer doesn't need it, then it won't use it. Why do you want to put it to use if there's no need for it? Leave it alone for a time when you do need it. Otherwise, if you put all your memory to use, you will kill your performance when you actually want to do something.

 

Even though Vista uses prefetch and idle processes to put your memory to use, it's not a bad thing for your system to have memory free. Load Crysis, and I guarantee you you'll see your used memory shoot right up to 2 GB .

 

I don't recommend this unless you have at least 1GB of RAM (2GB recommended). This is from my Windows memory, I don't currently use it except at work...

In XP (and probably Vista) you can go to Control Panel>System>Advanced>Performance

Click the Virtual Memory button.
Check the Radio Button that says something like "No Swap File" or "No virtual memory" or zero size or something.
Click the "Change" button
You should see a dialog box saying changes will not take effect until you restart Windows.
Restart Windows.

I know Windows doesn't call the hard disk virtual memory a "swap file" but I am sure you can figure it out.

In Linux, do a search on "swappiness" and change the setting to zero.

 

i remember it was something like that in control panel, but were you able to change how much ram your computer completely uses..

my issue was that under performance in task manager, it was say "physical memory..total: 2045 (2gbs) and chached: 1390, free: 7....what about the other 600mbs?

 

on standby probably, if ur computer aint slow its not an issue. the more free ram the better

 

Guys, even when my 1.5 GB RAM is not even half used...lot of pagefiling (upto 1GB) is done...why? why it doesnt completely use the RAM first then go on to the dessert (pagefile)

 

Let Windows do it unless you have a problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

chached + free does not equal total ram. Unless there is something wrong with the memory or you have 4Gb+ in a 32bit environment, your computer can & will use all the memory when it NEEDS to. Youd don't have 4Gb so unless you are having preformance issues with your memory don't worry.

 

Turning off the swap file, no matter how much memory you have, can be a very bad thing. Lots of things use the swap file specifically instead of ram, those programs will act crazy. Some won't even start and say there isn't enough available disk space or make some reference to the swap file. It won't make preformance faster in most cases either since if you have enough ram to try turning it off, you have enough ram for windows to use w/o having to go to the swap file or virtual memory.