What does Smart RAM actually do?

[ChrisInLA]

What does Smart RAM do? When I use either Smart Clean or Deep Clean, I see a reduction of memory usage by individual programs, but my commit charge remains unchanged. And a rollover of the Smart RAM icon in the Tray reveals a pop-up with the same available memory as before I performed a cleaning.

 

What gives? What memory is actually being released?

[Toppack]

Smart-Ram can be set to run continually in background to always monitor memory usage.

And Compression technology is an option.

[ChrisInLA]

re: Smart RAM

 

Thanks for the info--wasn't aware of the compression option. But I still have the question about why the commit charge remains unchanged even though the individual program usage goes down. Anyone?

[Toppack]

By "commit charge" are you talking about 'Page-file' (or Virtual-memory) usage.

I'm not sure, but I think Smart-ram only monitors Physical-memory, Not Virtual-memory?

 

I think of the 'commit-charge' as being the (Amount of Commited Virtual-memory).

[enoskype]

Hi ChrisInLA, welcome to IObit Forum! :grin:

 

Can you give us more information about your PC apart from your OS XP Home? Even such as, allocated page file, RAM size, the screenshot of Task Manager values about the programs concerning your question, etc.

 

In the mean time, reading Commit Charge may help for the further discussions.

 

Thanks and cheers.

 

Cheers.