Comments on: Free Up Your System Memory Quickly With MaxMem

By: HawkFest

HawkFest — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:00:28 +0000

…More briefly : for many developer it’s a “must” have in the toolbox.

By: HawkFest

HawkFest — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:55:27 +0000

While I was developing/testing game mods (TESIV Oblivion from Bethesda Softworks), I needed that kind of tool, so that loading a game for testing would force fetching from new/modified files, instead of from the RAM cache (there was no way to launch the game via some command switch call specifying to ignore the left-over RAM cache) . The only way I found which lifted the need to reboot each time I wanted to test objects/scripts in-game (instead of waiting for Windows to decide when it would empty/clean the RAM related to the game which process was terminated), was by using that kind of tool. And I was sooo glad I found this, saved me from a lot of hassle and time losses!

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By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:39:58 +0000

Guess we’re on the same page then It makes no sense to run this program in the background and enable periodical “free-ups” or whatever you may call it. What these programs usually do, by the way, is trying to allocate as much memory as possible and then just close its process, freeing up all the located memory. So, in effect, Windows still does all the memory management/freeing up.

By: Nakodari

Nakodari — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:24:59 +0000

I second your opinion. But I believe such tools can come handy, like you said, in situations when a user needs to force free some memory so that he can run any desired program.

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:59:19 +0000

You’re completely missing my point then. I know that you see a difference in free (physical) memory after you run one these programs. The thing is, it won’t help you, since Windows is perfectly capable of freeing up some memory when it is called for. Now if you really have an old system with – say 192mb of physical mem in an WinXP-based system – and you want to run a program but it’s not working because of a memory shortage, in rare occasions a tool like MaxMem will force just enough to be squeezed out of the memory to be able to run that resource-demanding program. That entirely true, I had that in like 1 or 2 occasions. But on a healthy system with enough resources for the kind of work you do with it, the resources this program will take up are probably more than what you will gain by running it. Tools like these are like flushing the toilet manually before you’re done, just to be sure that you won’t spill.

By: Nakodari

Nakodari — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:07:09 +0000

I disagree where you say “programs like this one only gives you a pretty looking ‘free mem’ figure, while influencing the system’s performance in no positive way at all.”

Before freeing the memory you can see how much memory is left by moving your mouse pointer over the system tray icon. After freeing some memory you can compare and check again how much memory is free. In my tests, it reduced 4% of memory which is enough if you have a low-to-medium end system.

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:08:02 +0000

Programs like these are a total waste of resources. Windows memory management is exceptionally well-organized, and having x MB’s of your total (physical) memory free doesn’t say a thing. As soon as more resources are necessary, Windows will automatically page threads that have no priority or clean up that which has become obsolete. Forcing this periodically by programs like this one only gives you a pretty looking ‘free mem’ figure, while influencing the system’s performance in no positive way at all.