RAM Boosting programs --- are they worth it?

On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:07:27 +0000, Cork Soaker
wrote:

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:03:48 -0800 (PST), Hari Hari Mau
wrote:

Hi, all !

I have a quad-core machine, with 16GB of RAM.

I use it for very heavy duty rendering jobs, requiring lots and lots
and LOTS of memory.

Even with the 16 GB of memory and XP 64-bits, there are times the
thing goes to paged RAM.

Currently I have 2 choices --- either change the mobo and upgrade the
RAM to 32 GB, or getting one of those "RAM Boosting" programs to
manage the RAM usage. Thus, my question ---

Do those "RAM Boosting" programs work?


No.



Windows will page no matter how much RAM you have. Are you talking
about a specific program?



First, you replied to my message, not the original poster's. No, *I*
am not talking about any specific program. Ask the original poster
what he was talking about, not me.

Second, it's not really correct that "Windows will page no matter how
much RAM you have." You are mixing up page file use with page
file allocation. They are not the same thing. Far and away the best
piece on the page file written is this article by the late MVP Alex
Nichol: "Virtual Memory in Windows XP" at
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php I recommend you read this to
better understand how all this works.

To find out how much page you actually use (as opposed to allocate),
go to http://billsway.com/notes%5Fpublic/winxp%5Ftweaks/ and download
WinXP-2K_Pagefile.zip to monitor your pagefile usage.


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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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