Defragment

[CloudGR]

Do you know programs that defrag RAM memory?

[fo3nix]

You shouldn't have to defrag RAM. And no, I've never seen a program that does this (memory management should be handled well by any half-decent kernel).

[Ralph]

The power button will defrag your RAM very quickly and efficiently!

[wideboy]

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I use it all the time and it's great.

[fo3nix]

wideboy: that should not be required. If you do see any performance gains with that type of product, the memory management by the windows kernel is far worse than I thought.

[wideboy]

fo3nix - it's probably because I use several programs back and forth in a single session and multi-task quite a lot. This program has let me see the memory going quite low (I've now got much more on my desktop) especially on a laptop with only 512MB. Either using the program directly or just letting it work in the background releases quite a lot of Ram over a few hours.

Yes, I know I should shut down or have a break occassionally (Ralph's suggestion is true)!

[fo3nix]

All of what you say wideboy though is perfectly true, but is only down to windows memory management. Try that sort of thing on Mac OS X or some flavour of GNU/Linux, and you may not need to restart for a few weeks!

[wideboy]

fo3nix, I wondered if you were using Mac or Linux!! Maybe Vista will be better??

[fo3nix]

No, XP ;)

Changing to a MacBookPro come the summer though; waiting for Leopard to be released.

Vista should be better for this sort of thing, yea. It's had a lot of its kernel completely re-built. However, there are still many, many bad things about it. And I wouldn't be surprised if it was delayed for another month or two even after the time they presently have set.