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Wait, isn't "Memory Clean" just one of those apps that allocates a huge chunk of memory, forcing the OS to page everything else to disk? Those things are snake
by codeka 12y ago
Wait, isn't "Memory Clean" just one of those apps that allocates a huge chunk of memory, forcing the OS to page everything else to disk? Those things are snake oil, they don't improve anything and in fact are often worse than doing nothing at all...
- pilsetnieks 12y agoPlus, a modern OS can sensibly manage it's own memory. If a lot of your memory is buffered, the OS will deal with it. If it's all taken, well, no additional application is going to help you with that. I think this panic started with Windows Vista where there was no distinction between actually used memory and memory used for caches and buffers. Hence the complaints about how Vista was so inefficient, it didn't have enough memory even when freshly launched with no apps open.
- _jsn 12y agoIt is complete snake oil and in the vast majority of cases will result in a net performance loss.