[Oldie]

Anyone familiar with this procedure?

Clean your RAM
You may recognize that your system gets slower and slower when playing and working a lot with your Desktop or a laptop. That’s because your RAM is full of remaining progress pieces you do not need any more.

1. Open the Notepad and type:

FreeMem=Space(64000000)

2. Save it as RAMcleaner.vbs (You should choose the “All Files” option when you save it.)

3. Run the file and your RAM may be cleaned.
Of course you can edit the code in the file for a greater “cleaning-progress”.

For Example: FreeMem=Space(128000000)

[Daveskater]

I used to have a program that did something similar to this, it's not really worth it tbh. If you really want to clear out programs that aren't open any more, then restart the PC.

Plus, how do you know it's not going to remove stuff you actually want? I'm pretty sure the program I used got rid of some information being used by currently running processes, which meant that when I maximised the program again, it took forever to get going.

[Blackmirror]

Clean Ram free does the same thing

Download Clean Ram free - Download Clean Ram - downloads.phpnuke.org

Not sure if its needed though

[Gunner]

Most all computer ram (SDRAM, DDRAM, etc) is dynamic.
Simply rebooting will clear all ram.
Some, most, critical servers will run 24/7 out of necessity.
All personal computers should be rebooted every day to "freshen up".

(Turning your computer off gives your Random Access Memory a chance to
unfragment.)

[Joshuashawharvey]

A complete shutdown and then turn your system back on after a few moments will entirely clear your RAM. RAM is volatile and loses all of it's data when the power is turned off. As restarting will not turn the RAM off some bits of data will remain, but it will clear the RAM enough.

[Gunner]

Warmboot is a software reset of the modules.
Coldboot is a hardware reset of the modules.
Both operations will initialize all data registers to zero.
If the power is not interrupted, even cold boot may fail to reset all adapters.
Shutdown, remove power, let it rest, turn on, boot up, and then play.

[Joshuashawharvey]

Cold boot will possibly fail if the system is started up immediately after it's shut down. Leaving it for a few moments will allow remaining data in the RAM to fade out. Otherwise it's extremely likely a cold boot will fail to completely clear RAM as RAM cycles need to be refreshed constantly or else it loses data.

Regardless, shut down or restart, it'll do the job

[Gunner]

FYI:
Years ago the conventional wisdom was that leaving your computer on all the time
would allow it to last longer before a crash. The culprit: Your hard drive.

Not so for a long time now. Most probable cause for drive failure now? Heat.

This info goes along with computer power off techniques that will allow your system
to run at peak performance.

[Albert Lionheart]

Interesting thought - when we get the new SSDs will we still have to buy RAM as well or will the whole thing work on a drive that provides a combination of RAM and conventional SSD? And will we know the difference?

[Daveskater]

That's a very good question Albert, and I too would like to know the answer

[Albert Lionheart]

Or maybe we will be able to have a drive running as dynamic memory and have the OS run straight from there - it will make machines so much faster and more reliable!

[Gunner]

Most SSD's use non-volatile flash memory.
I see the future bringing an all-in-one chip which will include processor, cache,
ram-drive, I/O, video, etc. Then, like many cameras and other electronic devices,
everything will be disposable.

[Joshuashawharvey]

As Gunner says, SSD's use non-volatile flash cells, but they also have volatile DRAM memory used for it's cache.

SSDs at present are much slower than RAM with the fastest SSD ever made having I think around 700-800MB/s read speed. Compare that to RAM, with DDR2 having around 5-10GB/s bandwidth. Also taking into account bus speeds. SATAII is only capable of 300MB/s. The SSD that I mentioned had to use a PCI-E bus, which obviously isn't available to us as a hard disk interface at present.

Maybe in the future the DRAM in SSD's could be used as conventional RAM instead of just cache. A step towards Gunners prediction.

[Gunner]

Actually, Texas Memory Systems makes an SSD at 4GB/s.
There are already, or will be, a hundred (give or take) OEM SSD manufacturers.
The SSD will only get faster and roomier every day from now until.......infinity.

[Joshuashawharvey]

I'm only going off what I read a while ago. I never said it was definite. I'm no expert. Besides, something like that isn't commerically available yet. 4GB/s is more like DDR rather than DDR2 speeds. Now we're at a period where DDR3 is becoming mainstream, with around 12GB/s+ bandwidth, 4GB/s would be less-than-average for RAM bandwidth.

Yeah, I know. Many of the SSD manfacturers are RAM manufacturers. Probably the most popular being OCZ. I quite like the Intel SSD's myself Just wish I could afford

[Gunner]

I'm no expert either but I know what I read a year ago, a month ago, a week or day,
gets updated today and will be again tomorrow.
Price? I remember when digital watches were $800 and DVD recorders were
$1500. If the demand is there, the supply will get larger and the cost smaller.
Just wait.

[Joshuashawharvey]

I remember DVD recorders being that price when I was about 10 but not digital watches

Yeah, I intend to wait for SSD's to mature a lot more before purchasing one, and by the time I do, hopefully they should be within realistic prices

[backsavekkk]

yeah?