Ram recovery W2K vsXP

[SveinE]

As known W2K is not very good to recover\let go of RAM when it is not used anymore. What I wonder if there is anyone that have any expirience if XP is better on this??
when I open a big IDW Inventor uses almost all the Ram, but W2K wont let go of it after on.

Regards Svein

[jmartzig]

have you tried/used "memturbo" for win2k? it's suppose to free ram up. i've tried it before, but after it frees ram up, it seems the puter will just take longer to bring other stuff up then - so i'm not all that confident that it works all that great. -Joe

[SveinE]

Hi.
Yes I`m using MemTurbo for W2K but I guess I have the same expirience as you, it frees up Ram but everything is getting real slow, so it is really worthless.
It is when I`m using MemTurbo I can see how much Ram W2K is holding back.I have 1GB Ram and now I`m working on a IDW that uses about 700Mb ram to open and when I use Memturbo it frees up almost everything but the system gets slow and if I dont`t use it W2K hold about everything(600Mb)
Really frustrating

Regards Svein

[jmartzig]

yep, ditto exctly what you just said. i just kinda like to see (as you do) at the bottom of the screen to see how much ram i have left. -Joe

[MechMan_]

It may be that you experience a slow down because your memory is too fragmented at that point to run efficiently. Also remember that every time you run an IV command that command is placed in memory. If you free up your memory that command is removed from memory and must be retrieved from the HD the next time you run it. Since you're retrieving it from the HD and sending it into fragmented memory this may be why it acts slow.

MechMan

[Anonymous]

Thanks, I see what you mean, but what is the use of
a program like MemTurbo then?

It is not a Inventor problem because my whole
system is getting real slow.

Maybe there is some settings in MemTurbo to prevent
this or some other program

like MemTurbo that
is better? Anyone ??

Have anybody tried both W2K and Xp on the same
computer and noticed any difference

in how they handle ram recovery??

Thanks

Regards Svein

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It
may be that you experience a slow down because your memory is too fragmented
at that point to run efficiently. Also remember that every time you run an IV
command that command is placed in memory. If you free up your memory that
command is removed from memory and must be retrieved from the HD the next time
you run it. Since you're retrieving it from the HD and sending it into
fragmented memory this may be why it acts
slow.

MechMan

[MechMan_]

I don't use MemTurbo (or any other such program) but it probably works better on less memory hungry programs than IV. My guess is that it would be more useful for when you would want to go from IV to another program, say MDT. You would exit IV and then free up memory so that MDT would run smoother.



Maybe it's just my failed memory (no pun intended) but it seems that I've heard of programs that "defrag" the in-use memory. Doing this after freeing up memory could help.

I've run both Win2k and XP Pro and can't say I've seen a difference in how RAM is used.

MechMan

[MechMan_]

Might try this. No promises from me though.



http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/59747.shtml



MechMan

[Anonymous]

Thank you I`ll give it a try and let you know how
it worked

Regards Svein

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Might
try this. No promises from me though.

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MechMan

[Anonymous]

Try the demo of clevercache pro. I've been using it for a couple of
years now to fix the problem (under NT4) you described with W2k & XP.
The price is reasonable and the performance increase I see paid for
itself in the first day.



http://www.oosoft.de/english/products/ooccpro/index.html



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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
BioServe Space Technologies

A NASA Commercial Space Center (CSC)

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[SveinE]

Thank you.

I saw your earlier post and have already downloaded it.
It sounded very good and it is good to hear from someone who have tryed it.
I`ll try it a couple of days and see how it works.
Have you done any settings? I enabled the MemO-Free and the MemO-Safe

Thanks

Regards svein

[SveinE]

Hi Jon and MechMan

Now I have tryed clevercache pro for about 5 hours and it really seem to work. I know it is a early to tell, but I yust had to tell you. I have been working between BIG IDW`s and assemblies all day and it works great compared too yesterday. I also downloaded the defrag prog. and used that before I started using IV this morning.
Maybe this is a HOT TIP for Sean and Charles to put on their sites??? It really seem help on a system that is beeing used to its limits.

I will tell you more when I have tryed it for a couple of days

Regards Svein

[MechMan_]

Thanks for the update Svein.

MechMan